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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston 0000000109083197 “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the titans of twentieth-century African American ...
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters Carla Kaplan 9780385490368 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House A landmark collection of more than five hundred letters written by Zora Neale Hurston, a woman ...
Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set
Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set Zora Neale Hurston 9780063223790 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison Available together for the first time in one spe...
Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories
Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories Zora Neale Hurston 9780940450837 Fiction Library of America Library of America When she died in obscurity in 1960, all her books were out of print. Now, Zora Ne...
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters by Carla Kaplan
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters by Carla Kaplan Zora Neale Hurston Excerpt Chapter 1 “DE TALKIN’ GAME” The Twenties (and Before) First and foremost a storyteller, with ...
Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant MULTIPLE Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant are renowned authors, with Hurston known for her significant contributions to African American literature and ...
Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West
Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West MULTIPLE "Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West are acclaimed authors renowned for their contributions to literature, with Hurston known for her work durin...
Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi MULTIPLE Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi are influential authors, with Hurston known for her significant contributions to African-American liter...
Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063098336 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins In the fi...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant 9780062748201 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the aut...
Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks
Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks MULTIPLE Prominent authors including Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, ...
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and W.E.B. Du Bois
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and W.E.B. Du Bois MULTIPLE Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and W.E.B. Du Bois are renowned figures in literature and civil rights, known for their influentia...
Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West
Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West MULTIPLE Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and M. Genevieve West are influential authors whose work spans literature, critical s...
Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston MULTIPLE Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston are prominent figures in American literature, renowned for their contributions to the Harlem Renaissance and Afr...
Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Lucy Hurston 9780385493758 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House One of the most beguiling and captivating figures of the twentieth ce...
Zora and Me
Zora and Me Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon 9780763658144 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Winner of the 2011 John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award!Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African...
Small-Girl Zora and the Shower of Stories: A Tall Tale Based on the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston
Small-Girl Zora and the Shower of Stories: A Tall Tale Based on the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston Giselle Liza Anatol 9780593404898 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A ...
Valerie Boyd
Valerie Boyd 000000011658992X Valerie Boyd was a notable American author, journalist, and educator, celebrated for her contributions to African American literature. She's best known for her acclaimed...
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Valerie Boyd 9780743253291 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A woman of enormous talent, remarkable drive, and rare intellectu...
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston Deborah G. Plant 9780252021831 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press In a ground-...
The Life of Herod the Great
The Life of Herod the Great Zora Neale Hurston 9780063161009 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Gre...
Jump at the Sun
Jump at the Sun Alicia D. Williams 9781534419131 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. The first picture book biography written about Zora Neale Hurston From the Newbery Honor–winning author...
Zora and Me: The Summoner
Zora and Me: The Summoner Victoria Bond 9780763642990 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston’s family and hometown persuade he...
The Gilded Six-Bits, A Short Story
The Gilded Six-Bits, A Short Story Zora Neale Hurston Article A screening of the film The Gilded Six-Bits was held July 29, 2010 as part of the AALBC.com Brownstones Series in Harlem, New York. B...
Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground
Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground T.R. Simon 9780763643010 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press “Beautifully written… The connection between slave times and Zora and Carrie’s world unravels slowly a...
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, N. Y. Nathiri, and others 9781886104686 Nonfiction Florida Histor...
Zora And Me
Zora And Me Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon 9780763643003 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Winner of the 2011 John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award!Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic Africa...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback) Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043862 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestsell...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043855 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestselling autho...
Jonah’s Gourd Vine: A Novel
Jonah’s Gourd Vine: A Novel Zora Neale Hurston 9780061350191 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Hurston’s novel Jonah’’s Gourd Vine was derived from the short story “The Gilded Six-Bits” which...
The Making of Butterflies
The Making of Butterflies Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063111585 Fiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins A First Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower, Zo...
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Deluxe Edition)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Deluxe Edition) Zora Neale Hurston 9780063447820 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people fro...
The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism
The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism Lindsey Stewart 9780810144132 Nonfiction Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press During the antebellum period, sl...
“The Inside Light”: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston
“The Inside Light”: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston Deborah G. Plant 9780313365171 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood Publishing Group This exploration of Zora Neale Hurston’s life and ...
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel Zora Neale Hurston 9780061651113 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins Acclaimed for her pitch-perfect accounts of rural black life and culture, Zora Ne...
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States Zora Neale Hurston 9780060188931 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a f...
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West 9780062915795 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (as described by Toni M...
Choreographing The Folk: The Dance Stagings Of Zora Neale Hurston (Indigenous Americas)
Choreographing The Folk: The Dance Stagings Of Zora Neale Hurston (Indigenous Americas) Anthea Kraut 9780816647125 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press While Zora Nea...
Magnolia Flower
Magnolia Flower Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063098312 Fiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a...
Wrapped In Rainbows
Wrapped In Rainbows Thumper Book Review Zora Neale Hurston ensured her place of prominence in the American literary canon with her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Her career was filled w...
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition) Zora Neale Hurston 9780063068537 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The beloved Zora Neale Hurston Classic—a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick—now available i...
Rainbow Book Club VI Discusses Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston, June 2019
Rainbow Book Club VI Discusses Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston, June 2019 Book Spotlights
Lies and Other Tall Tales
Lies and Other Tall Tales Zora Neale Hurston 9780060006570 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins These tales are so tall they touch the sky! From Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor artist Chri...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 9780061120060 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Born and raised in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all-black town in the United States, Zora Nea...
Neale Sourna
Neale Sourna NONE Neale Sourna is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and game story narrative writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has a diverse background, including business banking, wealth man...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” Amanda Robinson Book Review American history is saturated with the flagrant oppression of African people and their descendants. We have recently been pr...
M. Genevieve West
M. Genevieve West NONE M. Genevieve West is an English Professor at Texas Woman’s University, renowned for her scholarly work on Zora Neale Hurston. She has contributed to esteemed academic journals ...
Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography
Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography Zora Neale Hurston 9780062004833 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “Warm, witty, imaginative… . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New YorkerDust Tra...
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography Zora Neale Hurston 9780060854089 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “Warm, witty, imaginative… . This is a rich and winning book.”The New YorkerDust Trac...
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Moses, Man of the Mountain Zora Neale Hurston 9780061695148 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blen...
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories Zora Neale Hurston 9780061350184 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston’s short fictionmost of which appeared only in...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo Zora Neale Hurston 9780062748218 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins
Deborah G. Plant editor of BARRACOON, written by Zora Neale Hurston
Deborah G. Plant editor of BARRACOON, written by Zora Neale Hurston Author Interviews
Discover Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
Discover Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston Author Interviews
Lucy Hurston
Lucy Hurston NONE Lucy Anne Hurston is a Sociology Professor at Manchester Community College, Connecticut, and the niece of renowned 20th century writer, Zora Neale Hurston. Lucy Anne Hurston, niece ...
Zora, the Story Keeper
Zora, the Story Keeper Ebony Joy Wilkins 9781984816917 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A young Black girl and her aunt celebrate the wonder and magic of their family’s legacy through storytelling....
Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (Women Writers of Color)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (Women Writers of Color) Deborah G. Plant 9780275987510 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood Publishing Group This new biography takes into account the...
Every Tongue Got To Confess
Every Tongue Got To Confess Thumper Book Review I’m about to write words that I never thought that I would write. I never believed that I would ever be in the position of reviewing the newest, ...
Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards
Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Lincoln Theatre Washington District of Columbia Named for literary geniuses, Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, the Hurston/Wright Foundation was founded in 1990. Hurs...
Deborah G. Plant
Deborah G. Plant 0000000055229006 Deborah G. Plant is a respected scholar and critic, specializing in African American literature and Africana Studies, particularly the works of Zora Neale Hurston. P...
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Zora Neale Hurston 9780061695131 Nonfiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston’s personal e...
Mules and Men
Mules and Men Zora Neale Hurston 9780061350177 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins Mules and Men is a treasury of black America’s folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and a...
African American Audio Experience
African American Audio Experience Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks 9780060535278 Nonfiction Caedmon HarperCollins The leadi...
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Others
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Others MULTIPLE
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston 9780061651120 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of...
AALBC Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List
AALBC Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List Troy Johnson Article AALBC’s Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List Participating in AALBC’s Online Book Club is easy. Discussions are held on the...
T.R. Simon
T.R. Simon NONE T.R. Simon is an acclaimed author renowned for “Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground” and co-author of award-winning “Zora and Me” with Victoria Bond. Also co-authored “Oskar and the Eight ...
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive Zora Neale Hurston 9780912670669 Fiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press The most prolific African-American wo...
Ravi Howard
Ravi Howard NONE Ravi Howard is an award-winning author and television producer, known for his novel “Like Trees, Walking.” A recipient of the 2001 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award and the 200...
April Bestselling Books, Win Barracoon, Top Erotica, Google is too Powerful, and More
April Bestselling Books, Win Barracoon, Top Erotica, Google is too Powerful, and More Troy Johnson Article Bestselling Books March/April 2018 Fiction: The Yearning by Mohale Mashigo was the best...
Neale Sourna’s North Coast Academies’ Journal 1, Neale Sourna’s North Coast Academies’ Diary Vol. 1-3 Compiled
Neale Sourna’s North Coast Academies’ Journal 1, Neale Sourna’s North Coast Academies’ Diary Vol. 1-3 Compiled Neale Sourna 9780974195049 Fiction PIE: Perception Is Everything PIE: Perception Is Every...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All Deborah G. Plant 9780062898500 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Much like the work of Michelle Alexander and Douglas Blackmon, Plant’s narrative trac...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All Deborah G. Plant 9780062898494 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America’s obsession with continuing human b...
Malaika Adero
Malaika Adero 0000000384232281 Malaika Adero runs a literary agency, Adero's Literary Tribe, where she works with publishers and individual clients. She is the author of several books including “Up S...
Ronda Racha Penrice
Ronda Racha Penrice NONE Ronda Racha Penrice, an expert in African American history and culture, studied at Columbia University and NYU, focusing on African American literature. She contributed to Th...
Blacksmith Books
Blacksmith Books Blacksmith Books Blacksmith Books, LLC Blacksmith Books, LLC, was a small independent publisher established in 2005 that specialized in high-quality fiction and nonfiction for the di...
Blacksmith Books
Blacksmith Books Blacksmith Books, LLC Blacksmith Books Blacksmith Books, LLC, was a small independent publisher established in 2005 that specialized in high-quality fiction and nonfiction for the di...
The Sanctified Church
The Sanctified Church Zora Neale Hurston 9781569247303 Fiction Lifelong Books Perseus Books Group The Sanctified Church is a collection of Hurston’s essays on Afro-American folklore, legend, popular m...
Historically Black Colleges & Universities’ Guide to Excellence
Historically Black Colleges & Universities’ Guide to Excellence William R. Harvey 9780062863287 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An insider account on how HBCU graduates find success in the world as p...
Elizabeth Nunez
Elizabeth Nunez 0000000080832288 Elizabeth Nunez, a Trinidad-born, award-winning author, wrote ten novels and a memoir, with several recognized by the New York Times and Oprah's book club. Her works,...
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C. Stewart 9780195089578 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Alain Locke a tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Phila...
Ersula Knox Odom
Ersula Knox Odom NONE Ersula Knox Odom is a renowned legacy writer and author with over 100 published articles and two biographies. She's also a motivational speaker, prize-winning lyricist, and port...
Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood
Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood Damaris B. Hill 9781635576474 Poetry Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a...
Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love
Me and the Boss: A Story about Mending and Love Michelle Edwards 9780593310670 Fiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House All the highs and lows of having a bossy, protective, and loving older...
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781416534884 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance pro...
Jervette R. Ward
Jervette R. Ward NONE Dr. Jervette R. Ward is an English Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, editor, former journalist, and public relations professional. She specializes in American...
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed 0000000121258332 “A great writer.” —James Baldwin Ishmael Reed, born 1933, is a prominent black American writer known for his engaging novels, poetry, plays, and es...
Eleanora E. Tate
Eleanora E. Tate 0000000067159869 Eleanora E. Tate is an acclaimed author and educator known for her stories celebrating community life. Her first novel, Just an Overnight Guest, was adapted into a T...
Shamara Ray
Shamara Ray NONE Shamara Ray, a passionate writer and book lover, honed her skills at Syracuse University. Her writing dream took shape while commuting to Manhattan, where she created corporate educa...
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda 0000000109273150 Zakes Mda is a South African novelist, playwright, and painter, currently a professor at Ohio University. He has won major literary awards in South Africa and the USA, incl...
Robert G. O’Meally
Robert G. O’Meally 0000000108901063 Robert G. O'Meally is a distinguished scholar and the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is also the fou...
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader Alice Walker 9781936932733 Fiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press A collectio...
Graphic Classics Volume 22: African-American Classics
Graphic Classics Volume 22: African-American Classics Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and W.E.B. Du Bois 9780982563045 Fiction Eureka Productions Eureka Productions "Great stories and poems from A...
A clip from THE GILDED SIX BITS the film based upon a story by Zora Neale Hurston
A clip from THE GILDED SIX BITS the film based upon a story by Zora Neale Hurston Author Interviews
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 9780060838676 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins
Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston
Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston Mary E. Lyons 9780684191980 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. Describes the life and work of the prolific black author who wrote ...
David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham 0000000114789864 David Anthony Durham, born in 1969, is an award-winning author known for novels like Gabriel’s Story and Pride of Carthage. A recipient of the 1992 Zora Neale Hu...
Monda Raquel Webb
Monda Raquel Webb NONE Born in 1968, Monda Raquel Webb is an avid reader and writer who was influenced by notable authors like Zora Neale Hurston and James Baldwin. Raised in multiple states, she gra...
Clyde W. Ford
Clyde W. Ford 0000000109297208 Clyde W. Ford, NYC-born author of 13 fiction and non-fiction works, is also a psychotherapist, mythologist, and public speaker. He's received numerous accolades includi...