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Collection Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

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  • Glassman, Steve, and Kathryn Lee Seidel, eds. Zora in Florida. Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1991; distributed by University Presses of Florida.
  • Hurston, Zora Neale. The Complete Stories. With an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Sieglinde Lemke. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
  • --. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. With a foreword by Maya Angelou. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.
  • --. Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings. [New York]: Library of America, 1995; distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Books.
  • --. Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers' Project. Edited and with a biographical essay by Pamela Bordelon. New York: Norton, 1999.
  • --. I Love Myself When I Am Laughing . . . and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader. Edited by Alice Walker. With an introduction by Mary Helen Washington. Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1979.
  • --. Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel. With a foreword by Rita Dove. New York: Perennial Library, 1990.
  • --. Moses, Man of the Mountain. With a foreword by Deborah E. McDowell. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.
  • --. Mules and Men. With a preface by Franz Boas and a foreword by Arnold Rampersad. New York: Perennial Library, 1990.
  • --. Novels and Stories. [New York]: Library of America, c1995; distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Books.
  • --. The Sanctified Church. Berkeley, Calif.: Turtle Island, 1981.
  • --. Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel. With a foreword by Hazel V. Carby. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.
  • --. Sweat. Edited and with an introduction by Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
  • --. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. With a foreword by Ishmael Reed. New York: Perennial Library, 1990.
  • --. Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel. With a foreword by Mary Helen Washington. New York: Perennial Library, 1990.
  • --. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. Collected and edited by Carla Kaplan. New York: Doubleday, 2002.
  • --, and Langston Hughes. Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life. Edited and with introductions by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: HarperPerennial, [1991].
  • Nathiri, N. Y., ed and comp. Zora! Zora Neale Hurston, a Woman and her Community. Orlando: Sentinel Communications Co., 1991.

About Zora Neale Hurston

  • Bloom, Harold, ed. Zora Neale Hurston. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003.
  • Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner, 2003.
  • Campbell, Josie P. Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
  • Carter-Sigglow, Janet. Making her Way with Thunder: A Reappraisal of Zora Neale Hurston's Narrative Art. New York: P. Lang, 1994.
  • Cronin, Gloria L., ed. Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston. New York: G. K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1998.
  • Davis, Rose Parkman. Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography and Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and K.A. Appiah, eds. Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993; distributed in the U.S. by Penguin USA.
  • Grant, Alice Morgan, ed. All about Zora: Views and Reviews by Colleagues and Scholars at the Academic Conference of the First Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts, January 26-27, 1990, Eatonville, Florida. Winter Park, Fla.: Four-G Publishers, 1991.
  • Hemenway, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. With a foreword by Alice Walker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
  • Hill, Lynda Marion. Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1996.
  • Holloway, Karla F. C. The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
  • Howard, Lillie P., ed. Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: The Common Bond. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.
  • Karanja, Ayana I. Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
  • Lowe, John. Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
  • Meisenhelder, Susan Edwards. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.
  • Miles, Diana. Women, Violence and Testimony in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: P. Lang, 2003.
  • Peters, Pearlie Mae Fisher. The Assertive Woman in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction, Folklore, and Drama. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
  • Plant, Deborah G. Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
  • Sheffey, Ruthe T., ed. A Rainbow round Her Shoulder: The Zora Neale Hurston Symposium Papers. [Baltimore]: Morgan State University Press, 1982.
  • Zora Neale Hurston Society. The Zora Neale Hurston Forum: Official Publication of the Zora Neale Hurston Society. Baltimore, Md.: The Zora Neale Hurston Society, 1986- .
  • For information about the Zora Neale Hurston Trust, contact Victoria Sanders, 241 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 11H, New York, N.Y. 10014, tel. 212-633-8811.