Research Guides: Hurston, Zora Neale: Books

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Zora Neale Hurston by Deborah G. Plant
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780313051333
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance and an important and influential African American writer. This biography takes into account the whole woman, the writer, the philosopher, and the spiritual soul and examines each as it is reflected in her career, fiction and nonfiction publications, and her death.
The Inside Light by Deborah G. Plant (Editor)
Call Number: PS3515.U789Z745 2010 Florida (also ebook)
ISBN: 9780313365188
Publication Date: 2010-03-01
This exploration of Zora Neale Hurston's life and work draws on a wealth of newly discovered information and manuscripts that bring new dimensions of her writing to light. * 20 critical essays cover the full scope of Zora Neale Hurston's writing * Includes the work of 22 distinguished authors--both established and emerging Hurston scholars drawing on crucial recent research and discoveries
Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade by Virginia Lynn Moylan
Call Number: PS3515.U789Z788 2011 Florida
ISBN: 9780813035789
Publication Date: 2011-04-03
In 1948, false accusations of child molestation all but erased the reputation and career Zora Neale Hurston had worked for decades to build. Sensationalized in the profit-seeking press and relentlessly pursued by a prosecution more interested in a personal crusade than justice, the morals charge brought against her nearly drove her to suicide. But she lived on. She lived on past her accuser's admission that he had fabricated his whole story. She lived on for another twelve years, during which time she participated in some of the most remarkable events, movements, and projects of the day. Since her death, scholars and the public have rediscovered Hurston's work and conscientiously researched her biography.
Crossing the Creek: the literary friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Anna Lillios
Call Number: PS3515.U789Z764 2010 Florida
ISBN: 9780813038094
Publication Date: 2011-10-09
Drawing from interviews with people who knew both writers, as well as letters between them and other documented evidence of their meetings, Lillios (English, U. of Central Florida) offers an intriguing and in-depth study of the friendship between writers Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She describes their complicated interracial friendship during the 1940s, when both were at the height of their fame and creativity and had published successful memoirs--Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road and Rawlings' Cross Creek--following their novels Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Yearling, respectively. Focusing on the year 1942, when the two met, she describes the development of their friendship, the development of their writing craft that culminated in their masterpieces, their memoirs, and how they influenced each other as they struggled to complete their last creative works.
Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum by Ellis, C. Arthur
Call Number: KF224.M356 E45 2009 Florida
ISBN: 9780982094006
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
It is the sordid tale of an African-American wife who murdered her white lover on a hot August Sunday in 1952, and the ensuring trial that shook the foundations of the Segregationist South.
Jump at de Sun by A. P. Porter; Lucy Ann Hurston (Foreword by)
Call Number: Children's Book PS3515 .U789 Z83 1992
ISBN: 0876145462
Publication Date: 1992-08-01
In Jump at de Sun, A.P. Porter takes readers on the lonely and exciting road that brought Zora from Eatonville to a place in history.

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