‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

In the soon-to-be-published “The Life of Herod the Great,” Zora Neale Hurston reframes one of the Bible’s greatest villains. Over 60 years after her death, Zora Neale Hurston’s writing still astounds ...

Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance author, wanted to stage a play with an all-Black cast at Rollins College — just a stone’s throw from where she had grown up in Eatonville. The ...

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 essence of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance, comes vibrantly to life in Zora! See photos from the production below. The play by Laurence Holder ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the flamboyant, mocking rebel among Harlem’s Black literary creatives as well as a trained, ...

When you think about Zora Neale Hurston, first thing to come to mind, perhaps, is her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But she also wrote several short stories. (In 1995, Harper Collins published ...

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 ...