Zora Neale Hurston, the anthropologist, writer and Harlem Renaissance troubadour, is best known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," a 1937 roman à clef about a black woman's search for love in a decidedly untouristy Florida.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection
Zora Neale Hurston's Florida
The author's hometowns in Central Florida have retained much of their old charm.