Google is celebrating the 123rd birth anniversary of African-American author Zora Neale Hurston with its latest doodle for the US users.
Hurston is most famous for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
According to the Independent, the doodle depicts an illustrated portrait of Hurston set against a lake encircled by trees, a scene reminiscent of the Southern America she spent much of her life exploring.
Born in 1891 to two former slaves, Hurston grew up in Alabama and moved to Harlem in 1925, where she befriended the young luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, including the poets Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
Hurston once wrote that sometimes she felt discriminated against, but it didn't make her angry but astonished her that how can any deny themselves the pleasure of her company.
She died in obscurity in 1970, but her writing became widely recognised after Alice Walker's 1975 essay 'In Search of Zora Neale Hurston', in which she described how emotionally connected she had become to Hurston's work.
In 2010, her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God was selected as one of the greatest English-language novels ever written by Time magazine, the report added.
