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Zora Neale Hurston
Author · 43 books

Novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South. In 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! alongside Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman shortly before she entered Barnard College. This literary movement developed into the Harlem renaissance. Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men alongside fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God . She also assembled a folk-based performance dance group that recreated her Southern tableau with one performance on Broadway. People awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to Hurston to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her significant work ably broke into the secret societies and exposed their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer-anthropologist Katherine Dunham, then at the University of Chicago. In 1954, the Pittsburgh Courier assigned Hurston, unable to sell her fiction, to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor. Hurston also contributed to Woman in the Suwanee County Jail , a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie.

Books

What's the Hurry, Fox? book cover

What's the Hurry, Fox?

And Other Animal Stories

2004

The Sanctified Church book cover

The Sanctified Church

1981

The Life of Herod the Great book cover

The Life of Herod the Great

2025

Seraph on the Suwanee book cover

Seraph on the Suwanee

1948

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays book cover

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

2022

Color Struck book cover

Color Struck

1990

Drenched in Light book cover

Drenched in Light

1924

Magnolia Flower book cover

Magnolia Flower

2022

Their Eyes Were Watching God book cover

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937

Barracoon book cover

Barracoon

Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

2024

Genuine Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau book cover

Genuine Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau

Hoodoo's Earliest Grimoire and Spell Book

2018

American Midnight book cover

American Midnight

Tales of the Dark

2019

Zora Neale Hurston book cover

Zora Neale Hurston

A Life in Letters

2002

"Sweat" book cover

"Sweat"

1926

How it Feels to be Colored Me book cover

How it Feels to be Colored Me

1928

Spunk book cover

Spunk

1991

Zora Neale Hurston book cover

Zora Neale Hurston

Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings

1995

The Six Fools book cover

The Six Fools

2005

Sweat book cover

Sweat

1997

Tell My Horse book cover

Tell My Horse

Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

1938

The Gilded Six-Bits book cover

The Gilded Six-Bits

1986

Moses, Man of the Mountain book cover

Moses, Man of the Mountain

1939

Three Plays book cover

Three Plays

Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing

2009

Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers book cover

Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers

A Barnard College Collection

2001

Jonah's Gourd Vine / Mules and Men / Their Eyes Were Watching God book cover

Jonah's Gourd Vine / Mules and Men / Their Eyes Were Watching God

1990

The Making of Butterflies book cover

The Making of Butterflies

2023

The "Pet Negro" system book cover

The "Pet Negro" system

2019

Poker! book cover

Poker!

1931

Mules and Men book cover

Mules and Men

1935

Every Tongue Got to Confess book cover

Every Tongue Got to Confess

2001

Barracoon book cover

Barracoon

The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

2018

Jonah's Gourd Vine book cover

Jonah's Gourd Vine

1934

New York stories book cover

New York stories

2015

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick book cover

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

2020

Zora Neale Hurston book cover

Zora Neale Hurston

Novels & Stories

1995

Dust Tracks on a Road book cover

Dust Tracks on a Road

1942

John Redding vai ao mar book cover

John Redding vai ao mar

1921

Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men book cover

Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men

1999

The Skull Talks Back book cover

The Skull Talks Back

And Other Haunting Tales

2004

Lies and Other Tall Tales book cover

Lies and Other Tall Tales

2005

The Complete Stories book cover

The Complete Stories

1995

Go Gator and Muddy the Water book cover

Go Gator and Muddy the Water

1999

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive book cover

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive

A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

1979

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