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Content: 1942). Zora Neale Hurston was a relatively private person. She has been 
described by those who knew her as having the personality traits of 
loudness and coarseness. She was controversial, highly outspoken, 
arrogant, independent, and eccentric. To be a black woman with a career
in writing in the 1920's through the 1950's was eccentric. She lived
in controversy and died poor in 1960. When she died she was thirty 
years out of print. She was a writer, an anthropologist, and a 
folklorist. Hurston had a hard time with depicting blacks as defeated, humiliated, 
degraded, or victimized in her work. This is because she didn't 
experience herself or other African Americans in those ways.