Few 20th-century American novels are more widely celebrated than Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God.The work, which traces a Southern black woman’s odyssey through ...

How one navigates and deals with perfidy is one of the questions that Zora Neale Hurston raises in her posthumously published novel, The Life of Herod the Great. A work of historical fiction focused ...

Zora Neale Hurston's work didn't have the literary appreciation it now has until more than 15 years after her death in 1960.

Hurston’s works almost faded into obscurity until writer Alice Walker rediscovered her legacy. In 1975, Walker wrote the essay “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” chronicling her journey to locate ...

Challenge 1: Can I correctly identify the argument after skimming the introduction. MPG: Okay first of all “Zora Neale Hurston descended into the underworld in New Orleans and the Black Atlantic in ...

Hurston's life and work are revealed through the reviews and essays contained in Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah have chosen reviews ...

Deborah G. Plant reports that scholarship supports Hurston’s Herod. Scribner’s rejected the unfinished novel. An earlier biographer, Robert Hemenway, regarded “The Life of Herod the Great” as the sign ...

An index of the many historians, memoirists, novelists, poets, news-makers, image-makers, and more who shaped the scholarship and storytelling behind “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” ...

Zora Neale Hurston, American, 1891 - 1960 Worn by Lucy Kramer Cohen, American, 1907 - 2007 Subject of Barnard College, American, founded 1889 Caption This commencement cap originally belonged to ...