Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Saturday Review Gallery |
1959 |
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| The Best Short Stories by Black Writers |
1967 |
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| Louisiana Stories |
1990 |
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| Florida Stories |
1993 |
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| Writing Women’s Lives |
1994 |
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| Downhome |
1995 |
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| The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals |
1996 |
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| Writing New York |
1998 |
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| The Messenger Reader Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine |
2000 |
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| Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers |
2001 |
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| Rotten English |
2007 |
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| Graphic Classics, Volume 22: African-American Classics |
2011 |
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| Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell |
2018 |
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Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA) Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Chinatown Family |
1950 |
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| Chinatown Family (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas |
1950 |
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Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
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| How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
1928 |
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| Tell My Horse |
1938 |
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| Dust Tracks on a Road |
1942 |
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| Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings |
1995 |
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| Bottle Up and Go |
1995 |
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| Complete Essays |
1997 |
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| Collected Essays |
1998 |
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| Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters |
2002 |
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| You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays |
2022 |
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| You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays |
2022 |
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| The Last Slave Ship |
2023 |
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| Cudjo’s Own Story of the Last African Slaver |
2023 |
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Picture Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Three Witches |
2006 |
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| Magnolia Flower |
2022 |
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| The Making of Butterflies |
2023 |
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Plays#
| Title |
Published |
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| Three Plays: Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing |
2009 |
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| De Turkey an de Law |
2015 |
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| Spunk: A Play |
2016 |
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| Three Plays: Meet the Mamma, Color Struck and Spunk |
2022 |
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| Color Struck |
2022 |
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Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
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| Drenched in Light |
1924 |
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| The Gilded Six-Bits |
1986 |
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| Sweat |
1997 |
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| The Mule-Bone |
2023 |
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Short Story Collections#
| Title |
Published |
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| Mules and Men |
1935 |
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| I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again |
1979 |
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| Hurston Reader |
1979 |
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| The Sanctified Church |
1981 |
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| Spunk! |
1985 |
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| The Complete Stories |
1995 |
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| Novels and Stories |
1995 |
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| Zora Neale Hurston: Stories |
1995 |
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| Zora Neale Hurston: Plays |
1998 |
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| Go Gator and Muddy the Water |
1999 |
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| Every Tongue Got to Confess |
2001 |
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| In Search of Our Sister’s Garden |
2003 |
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| What’s the Hurry, Fox? |
2004 |
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| The Skull Talks Back |
2004 |
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| Lies and Other Tall Tales |
2005 |
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| Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick |
2020 |
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| I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive |
2020 |
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| Bookmarks in the Pages of Life |
2020 |
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| Collected Early Works |
2022 |
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Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
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| Jonah’s Gourd Vine |
1934 |
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
1937 |
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| Moses, Man of the Mountain |
1939 |
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| Seraph on the Suwanee |
1948 |
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| Barracoon |
2018 |
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| The Life of Herod the Great |
2025 |
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was an American author and anthropologist who became one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Alabama and raised in Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-Black incorporated towns in the United States, Hurston drew on her Southern upbringing and her training in anthropology at Columbia University under Franz Boas to produce fiction and non-fiction steeped in African American vernacular and folk traditions.
Her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is now considered one of the great American novels, though it received mixed reviews at the time of publication. Hurston also wrote Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Moses, Man of the Mountain, and Seraph on the Suwanee, along with folklore collections, essays, plays, and an autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. After falling into obscurity, her work was revived in the 1970s through the efforts of writer Alice Walker.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Zora Neale Hurston written?
Zora Neale Hurston has written 64 books across eight series.
What was Zora Neale Hurston's first book?
Zora Neale Hurston’s first book is Drenched in Light, published in 1924.
What is Zora Neale Hurston best known for?
Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, which is widely considered a classic of American and African American literature. She was also a trained anthropologist who collected African American folklore, most notably in her book Mules and Men (1935).