There are years that ask questions and years that answer,” wrote Zora Neale Hurston in her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were ...

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 ...

Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, The Life of Herod The Great. Hurston, the accomplished Black writer, folklorist and ...

The Zora Neale Hurston Trust held the inaugural Zora Neale Hurston Summit on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 on Barnard’s campus in honor of Hurston’s “life, legacy, and work” as a writer and anthropologist. The ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The prestigious award honors Black writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, ...

Hurston's family settled in Eatonville in 1894 when she was 3. Hurston's most popular novel was “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” written in 1937. Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, author of "The ...