The Orange County Library System is hosting events as part of the celebration of Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy. One of them, ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

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In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle ... paean “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937); her book about Haitian Vodou, “Tell My Horse” (1938); and her ...

Her editor there, Burroughs Mitchell, known mainly for being the man who rejected three novels by Zora Neale Hurston, explained that the book “does not seem to us to accomplish its intention.

Scholars and completists will be interested to read it, but the book does not add lustre to Hurston’s literary legacy. This page-turning dual narrative shifts between weeks in present-day April and ...

ZORA! Festival kicks off in Eatonville in late January with an art exhibition opening at the Hurston Museum and a three-day ...

Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston's ... specializing in Hurston's works, who helped get the late author's manuscript in shape for publication.

An annual festival returning later this month celebrates the life and legacy of the late Central Florida author Zora Neale Hurston while honoring the contributions of Black people across the ...