Dust Tracks on a Road
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"Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's most compelling and influential authors." --Publisher's description
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
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"Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author." --Publisher's description
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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"How It Feels To Be Colored Me" by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and her first experiences in life feeling "different." --Publisher's description
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
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A landmark collection of more than five hundred letters written by a woman at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance--an author who remains one of the most intriguing people in American cultural history. Through letters to Harlem Renaissance friends Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Dorothy West, and Carl Van Vechten, and to bestselling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Fannie Hurst, among others, readers experience the exuberance and trials of Hurston's life. Her letters to her patron, Mrs. Charlotte "Godmother" Osgood Mason, are laced with equal amounts of cynicism and reverence, and offer a fascinating glimpse of the perilously thin line Hurston tread to maintain vital monetary support as she pursued her art and avant-garde lifestyle (which included crossing the country collecting folklore, and a job as story editor at Paramount Pictures in the 1940s). Meticulously edited and annotated, this landmark collection of letters will provide her fans, as well as those discovering Hurston for the first time, with a penetrating and profound portrait into the life, writings (four novels, a play, an autobiography, and countless essays), and impressive imagination of one of the most amazing characters to grace American letters.
Wrapped in Rainbows
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"Wrapped in Rainbows, the first biography of Zora Neale Hurston in more than twenty-five years, illuminates the adventures, complexities, and sorrows of an extraordinary life. Acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd delves into Hurston's history--her youth in the country's first incorporated all-black town, her friendships with luminaries such as Langston Hughes, her sexuality and short-lived marriages, and her mysterious relationship with vodou." --Publisher's description
Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit
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"Here, Plant offers a biography of the literary master that takes her spirituality into account in both her life and her works in order to shape a fuller picture of the woman, the writer, the philosopher, and the spirit that animated this gifted American author."
The Chase and Ruins
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"A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy. In The Chase and Ruins, Sharony Green uncovers an understudied but important period of Hurston's life: her stay in Honduras in the late 1940s." --Publisher's description
Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
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"Drawing on archival documents and interviews with people who knew her, Hemenway explores Hurston's art and work, from her extraordinary novels and autobiography to a popular treatment of black folkways that revealed her deep commitment to the black folk tradition."--Publisher's description
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space is a comprehensive documentary from PBS's American Experience series that offers an in-depth chronicle of Hurston's life and influential literary/anthropological work.
Eatonville
Though Zora was born in Notasulga, Alabama, she would move with her family to Eatonville, Florida as a toddler, and viewed Eatonville as her hometown. Eatonville, an incorporated, self-governed, all-African American town north of Orlando, Florida, is known as the oldest incorporated African American municipality in the United States. In 1897, her father would be elected mayor of the town. Zora's experience growing up in Eatonville served as major literary inspiration for her, and the town would become a frequent setting in her stories.
Zora's Legacy in Eatonville
Fort Pierce
In the late 1950's, Zora would move to Fort Pierce, a city St. Lucie County, Florida, where she was offered a small house to live in rent free by Dr. C.C. Benton, a family friend from Eatonville. During her time in Fort Pierce, she would write as a columnist for the Fort Pierce Chronicle, and served as a substitute teacher at Lincoln Park Academy. She died in poverty in Lucie County Welfare Home on Jan. 28, 1960 after suffering a stroke. Unable to afford a headstone, Hurston was buried in an unmarked grave. Shortly following her death, some of her papers would be saved from being disposed of in a fire, ultimately resulting in the posthumous publishing of one of her salvaged works - The Life of Herod the Great (2025). In 1973, Alice Walker, novelist and author of The Color Purple, would uncover Hurston's unmarked grave in Fort Pierce, and finally give it a headstone.
Zora's Legacy in Fort Pierce
The Harlem Renaissance (c. 1918–37), also known as the New Negro Movement, was an intellectual and cultural movement based out of Harlem, New York that centered on flourishing Black creativity and expression in music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship. After moving to New York City in 1925, Zora would become one of the most notable female figures of the movement, collaborating with other notable Renaissance writers such as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke. During this period of booming Black artistry, Hurston's writings stood out for their unique focus on Black women and Black southern life.