The Zora Neale Hurston Page

( 1891-1960 )

Major Works
Cheryl A. Wall has selected and annotated the two Hurston volumes in The Library of America, Novels and Stories and Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, 1995.
Jonah's Gourd Vine ( 1934 ). A novel.
Mules and Men ( 1935 ). African American folklore.
Their Eyes Were Watching God ( 1937 ). A novel.
Tell My Horse ( 1938 ). A memoir.
Moses Man of the Mountain ( 1941 ). A novel.
Dust Tracks on a Road ( 1942 ). A sort of a memoir.
Seraph on the Suwanee ( 1948 ). A novel.
The Sanctified Church: The Folklore Writings of Zora Neale Hurston. With "Some Forward Remarks" by Toni Cade Bambara. Turtle Island, 1981. Several of these pieces are included in the LOA Hurston, but this volume supplements the published individual works and is not to be missed.

About Hurston
Robert E. Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. With a preface by Alice Walker. Illinois, 1980.
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. An Interview with Karla Kaplan.
Voices from the Gaps. Biography, bibliography, links.
Zora Neale Hurston. from Internet Public Library.

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