Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), folklorist and novelist, was best known for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in which she charted a young African American woman's journey...

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirtyyear period she published seven books, many short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she gained a reputat...

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirty-year period she published seven books, numerous short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she also gained...

TIME WAS when the compilers of anthologies were generalists. They based their selections on quality (The World's One Thousand Best Poems) or personal taste (Reading I've Liked), popularity (A Treasury of the Familiar) or preciousness (Pebbled Brooks and Crystal Drops). If they specialized they...

Zora N. Hurston fest held annually in Eatonville, Fla. In recent years, every phase of African American culture and history has been brought to the attention of the world in the United States. Florida, rich in what it calls the "Florida Black...