It looks like you're offline.
Donate
English (en) Change Website Language
Open Library logo
additional options menu
Last edited by Drini
March 25, 2025 | History
Edit

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891  – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. source

Photo of Zora Neale Hurston

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891-1960)

Born 1901
Died 1960

88 works Add another?

  • Cover of: Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Cover of edition theireyeswerewat00hurs Cover of edition theireyeswere00hurs Cover of edition theireyeswerewat1998hurs Cover of edition isbn_9780060838676 Cover of edition isbn_0252006860 First published in 1937 — 66 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Dust tracks on a road.
    Preview

    Cover of edition dusttracksonroad2010hurs Cover of edition dusttracksonroad00hurs_3 Cover of edition dusttracksonroad00hurs_0 Cover of edition dusttracksonr2nd00hurs First published in 1942 — 33 editions
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Jonah's gourd vine
    Preview

    Cover of edition jonahsgourdvinen00hurs First published in 1934 — 19 editions
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Mules and men
    Preview

    Cover of edition mulesmen00hursrich First published in 1935 — 18 editions
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

    First published in 2004 — 16 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Tell My Horse: Voodoo And Life In Haiti And Jamaica
    Preview

    Cover of edition tellmyhorse00zora Cover of edition tellmyhorsevoodo0000hurs_p2l7 First published in 1938 — 15 editions
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Spunk: the selected stories
    Preview

    First published in 1985 — 13 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Moses, man of the mountain
    Preview

    Cover of edition mosesmanofmounta00hurs_0 Cover of edition mosesmanofmounta00hurs First published in 1939 — 11 editions
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: The Mule-Bone

    First published in 1931 — 10 editions
    Read

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
    Preview

    Cover of edition everytonguegotto0000hurs First published in 2001 — 10 editions
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

    First published in 2020 — 9 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Prentice Hall: Literature: Silver
    Preview

    Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_q4d3 Cover of edition prenticehalllite00na_1 Cover of edition prenticehalllite03koel First published in 1991 — 9 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience
    Preview

    Cover of edition prenticehalllite00na Cover of edition prenticehalllite00duer Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_y5z1 Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_i1u3 First published in 1999 — 9 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Seraph on the Suwanee: a novel
    Preview

    Cover of edition seraphonsuwaneen0000hurs First published in 1948 — 9 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: The complete stories
    Preview

    Cover of edition completestories0000hurs Cover of edition completestories0000hurs_j7d6 First published in 1995 — 8 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: You Dont Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    First published in 2022 — 7 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive: a Zora Neale Hurston reader
    Preview

    First published in 1979 — 7 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

    First published in 1996 — 6 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices Timeless Themes: Bronze Level
    Preview

    Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_n0x8 Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_c4c8 First published in 2002 — 5 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Prentice Hall: Literature: The American Experience
    Preview

    Cover of edition prenticehalllite11koel Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_z5s3 Cover of edition prenticehalllite00koel_0 First published in 1989 — 5 editions
    Borrow

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

Photo of Zora Neale Hurston

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891-1960)

Born 1901
Died 1960

Subjects

African Americans, Fiction, American literature, Drama, Social life and customs, Folklore, African American authors, Biography, Juvenile audience, Literature, African American women, Women authors, African americans, fiction, American drama, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Anglo-Saxons, Children's fiction, History, Hurston, zora neale, 1901-1960, Mystery and detective stories, Private investigators, amorality, aristocracy, detective fiction, locked-room mysteries

Places

United States, England, Florida, Calcutta, India, Surrey, Alabama, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, Haiti, Jamaica, Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Milford meeting house, Owl Creek Bridge, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, California, Fountain of Youth, Justice of the Peace Court, Louisiana

People

Zora Neale Hurston, Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Stroke Moran, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Devil, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, John Hale, John Hathorne, John Proctor, Josephine, Louise Mallard

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1692, 1861-1865, 1861-65, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1804-, 1844-, December

Lists

Add to List

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

ID Numbers

Links outside Open Library

No links yet. Add one?

Alternative names

  • Zora Neale Neale Hurston
  • zora neale hurston
  • Zora Neale Zora Neale Hurston
  • Zora Neal Hurston
  • Hurston
  • Hurston-Z.N
  • Z. N. Hurston
  • Zora Neale HUrston
  • Zora Hurston
  • Neale Hurston Zora

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
March 25, 2025 Edited by Drini Edited without comment.
January 29, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
January 20, 2024 Edited by bitnapper Edited without comment.
January 20, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import