Research about Zora Neale Hurston

I did research about the author of "their eyes were watching god", Zora Neale Hurston, because I wanted to know what she did, and why she wrote this book.

Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, Jan.7 1891. She was the fifth of eight children of John Hurston and Lucy Ann Hurston . Her father was a Baptist preacher, tenant farmer, and carpenter, and her mother was a school teacher.                                                               She was a Republican who was generally sympathetic to the foreign policy non-interventionism of the Old Right and a fan of Booker T. Washington's self-help politics. People say " Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature."(http://zoranealehurston.com/ ) Hurston supported the presidential campaign of Senator Robert A. Taft. Like Taft, Hurston was against Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies. She also shared his opposition to Roosevelt and Truman's interventionist foreign policy. She wrote "their eyes were watching god"  during her fieldwork in Haiti. And her writings show an affinity for feminist individualism.                                Now I know what she did for the politics and why she wrote this book.