(I) Considered the first black feminist novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston tracks a Southern black woman's search for her true identity. (II) An anthropologist as well as a writer of fiction, Hurston delighted in describing the richness of black culture and folklore in her work, (III) She became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, but then fell into obscurity. (IV) It was not until the 1960s that the feminist philosophy again gained both a significant group of spokeswomen and an audience. (V) Her work was rediscovered by feminists in the 1970s, and she is now considered one of the central writers of the African American literary tradition.