Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, playwright, and anthropologist. Hurston is an important figure in Harlem Renaissance literature, and is famous for Their Eyes Are Watching God.
1. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
by Zora Neale Hurston. HarperCollins Publishers. From the publisher: "First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity, this is Zora Neale Hurston's unrestrained account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to prominence among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance."
2. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
by Valerie Boyd. Scribner. From the publisher: "With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and World War II as historical backdrops, Wrapped in Rainbows not only positions Hurston's work in her time but offers implications for our own."3. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
by Carla Kaplan. Doubleday. This collection offers more than 500 letters from Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, Fannie Hurst, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.4. Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics
by Deborah G. Plant. University of Illinois Press. From the publisher: "In a ground-breaking study of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant takes issue with current notions of Hurston as a feminist and earlier impressions of her as an intellectual lightweight who disregarded serious issues of race in American culture."5. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
by Zora Neale Hurston. HarperCollins Publishers. From the publisher: "Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica... this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural interest."6. Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
by Zora Neale Hurston. Library of America. "Folklore is the arts of the people," Hurston wrote, "before they find out that there is any such thing as art." From the publisher: "A pioneer of African-American ethnography who did graduate study in anthropology with the renowned Franz Boas, Hurston devoted herseif to preserving the black folk heritage." Read more of her own writings.7. I Love Myself when I Am Laughing...and Then Again when I Am Looking Me
by Zora Neale Hurston. Feminist Press. From the publisher: "The most prolific African-American author from 1920 to 1950, Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for her independence and audaciousness. This unique anthology, with 14 superb examples of her fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, rightfully establishes her as the intellectual and spiritual leader..."8. Jump at de Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston
by A. P. Porter. Lerner Publishing Group. From the publishter: This book "follows the life of the Afro-American writer known for her novels, plays, articles, and collections of folklore."9. Zora Neale Hurston
by Robert E. Hemenway. University of Illinois Press. From the publisher: "This book is valuable in many areas. It is a good sourcebook for the Harlem Renaissance period. It is excellent for teaching purposes because of the extensive notes and bibliography."10. Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah. HarperCollins Publishers. From the publisher: "Zora Neale Hurston is a literary legend. One of the leading forces of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston was also one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors in America from the mid twenties to the mid forties."