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 ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Zora Neale Hurston may now be considered the most significant Black woman writer of the first half of the 20th century, but at the time of her death, family members say she was ...

Zora Neale Hurston may have been buried in an unmarked grave when she died in 1960, but her star has been rising, posthumously, ever since Alice Walker brought her back to public’s attention in the ...

Cudjo Lewis was getting old, and Zora Neale Hurston had something to prove. Hurston, the prolific African American author best known for "Their Eyes Were Watching God," was just starting her career in ...

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 ...

Highlights include a Prince musical in Minnesota, “Working Girl” in California, a Zora Neale Hurston play in Connecticut and “Paranormal Activity” in Illinois. By Laura Collins-Hughes Try this short ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — The Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College, now in its third year, welcomes its cohort of five writers, Kay Bell, Theresa Lin, Vivian Rivas, Gwendolyn Shaw, and ...

A new documentary about Valerie Boyd, the acclaimed biographer of Zora Neale Hurston, will be screened this Saturday at the Tara theater in Atlanta as part of the BronzeLens Film Festival. Called ...

Valerie Boyd, author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (2003, Scribner) and the forthcoming Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000 (2022, S&S), ...

Over 60 years after her death, Zora Neale Hurston’s writing still astounds — and soon, lovers of her work will have a new offering from the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance author. Per People magazine, ...