Hughes, Langston, and Zora Neale Hurston. Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life, edited by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Harper, 1991.

This book contains the full text of the play, and it also contains a selection of articles that deal with the controversy regarding its writing and the legal issues that resulted.

Kellner, Bruce, editor. The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary, Greenwood, 1984.

This text provides a brief literary biography of artists who wrote during the same period as Hurston and Hughes.

Pryse, Marjorie, and Hortense J. Spillers, editors. Conjuring, Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition, Indiana University Press, 1985.

This collection of essays attempts to place Hurston within a context of other American black women writers and demonstrates her influence on the women writers who followed.

Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 1986.

Rampersad relates Hughes's relationship with Hurston.

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