Civil Rights activist Zora Neale Hurston is the new Google Doodle today in order to celebrate what would have been her 123rd birthday. Read on for the facts on Hurston to see why she’s someone to ...

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 ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: To celebrate Black History month, we will be reposting our series on African Americans who had a major impact on Florida. This story originally published in 2020. When Deputy Patrick ...

Though Zora Neale Hurston is highly lauded now, few outside the literary scholar space know much about her journey and the intensive work that went into crafting her novels, some of which are now ...

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her death. The novel... How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued ...

In 1928, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Polk County, Florida to collect folklore. She ended up at a lumber camp, where African Americans from around the South worked long hours in difficult conditions ...

Zora Neale Hurston was a philosemite. She believed that the Jews had been victims of stereotyping that started with Moses and that was promoted by the Bible and fed to children in Sunday school. Among ...

Try this short quiz on books that arrived after their authors departed. By J. D. Biersdorfer Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost ...

‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Courtesy of Barbara Hurston Lewis, Faye Hurston, and Lois Gaston; Akindele John/Stephen Brayda/HarperCollins ...

A task force began reviewing over $3B in tourism funding requests, including a proposed Zora Neale Hurston museum.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Like the protagonist in her classic ...