Carla Kaplan, Author, Robert Hemenway, Foreword by, Zora Neale Hurston, Author . Doubleday $35 (896p) ISBN 978-0-385-49035-1
Many of the questions that Hurston scholars have asked are addressed, and occasionally answered, in this momentous collection of letters by one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance: Why did she constantly alter her age? Did she take a...
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Edited by Tom Poplun and Lance Tooks. Eureka, $17.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-9825630-4-5
Twenty-three works from a rich source of late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature get the graphic novel treatment in this wide-ranging anthology. Authors like W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes are represented,...
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Zora Neale Hurston, edited by Genevieve West. Amistad, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-291579-5
This arresting collection from Hurston (Barracoon) includes eight previously unpublished works, mostly set in or featuring characters from her hometown of Eatonville, Fla. Many of the stories draw on folklore and mythology to dramatize conflicts...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Author, Ann Tanksley, Illustrator, Joyce Carol Thomas, Adapted by , adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas, illus. by Ann Tanksley. HarperCollins $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-000646-4
Though Zora Neale Hurston's collection of southern folklore (from which this tale comes) was originally published more than 75 years ago, Thomas's (Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
) adaptation here keeps the humor fresh and lively. Newcomer...
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Zora Neale Hurston. Amistad, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-304385-5
More than three decades of work by novelist Hurston (1891–1960) come together in this showstopping collection. In “Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals,” she spotlights the power of spiritual songs, and notes that “in the mouth of the Negro, the English...
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Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, illus. by Loveis Wise. HarperCollins, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-309831-2
Kendi (Antiracist Baby) adapts a short story by Hurston (1891–1960) in this visually stunning foray into folklore, as related by a mighty river to a babbling brook. Asked to tell of people in love, the river reminisces about Bentley, a Black man who
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Zora Neale Hurston, Author, Faith Ringgold, Illustrator, Joyce Carol Thomas, Adapted by , adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas, illus. by Faith Ringgold. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-000649-5
This suspenseful folk story, collected by Hurston (1861–1960) and adapted by Thomas (The Six Fools
), finds three crones (with teeth "far longer than their lips") in pursuit of a brother and sister. After the children's grandmother
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Zora Neale Hurston, Author, John Edgar Wideman, Introduction by, Carla Kaplan, Editor , edited with intro. by Carla Kaplan, foreword by John Edgar Wideman. HarperCollins $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-018893-1
Although Hurston is better known for her novels, particularly Their Eyes Were Watching God, she might have been prouder of her anthropological field work. In 1927, with the support of Franz Boas, the dean of American anthropologists, Hurston...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Author, Pamela Bordelon, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $16.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-393-31813-5
The writings of distinguished African-American Harlem Renaissance author, folklorist, playwright and anthropologist Hurston during her tenure (1938-39) in the Florida division of the Federal Writers Project, many of them previously unpublished, are...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Author, Pamela Bordelon, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-393-04695-3
The writings of distinguished African-American Harlem Renaissance author, folklorist, playwright and anthropologist Hurston during her tenure (1938-39) in the Florida division of the Federal Writers Project, many of them previously unpublished, are...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Author, Christopher A. Myers, Author, Joyce Carol Thomas, Author , adapted and illus. by Christopher Myers. HarperCollins $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-000655-6
This collection of interlinking tall tales reads like a lively, bantering conversation. Collected by Zora Neale Hurston as she traveled through the Gulf States "back in the day," and retold and imaginatively illustrated by Myers takes on...
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Joyce Carol Thomas, Adapted by, Zora Neale Hurston, Author, Bryan Collier, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-000643-3
Joyce Carol Thomas adapts a raft of folklore originally collected by Zora Neale Hurston in What's the Hurry, Fox? And Other Animal Stories, illus. by Brian Collier. The pourquoi tales told to Hurston by native Southerners (and compiled in ...
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Zora Neale Hurston, edited by Deborah G. Plant. Amistad, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-274820-1
This previously unpublished manuscript from Hurston (1891–1960) is a remarkable account of the life of Kossola, also known as Cudjo Lewis, the last survivor of the last American slave ship. Before writing Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston was...
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Zora Neale Hurston. Amistad, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-316100-9
In this unfinished novel, Hurston (1891–1960) attempts a biblical retelling similar to her novel Moses, Man of the Mountain, unspooling a stimulating if rushed revisionist narrative of Herod the Great. It opens with a 25-year-old Herod appointed as...
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