One of Zora Neale Hurston's partially burned photographs “A friend in Mississippi, where I had moved to, gave me her book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and after that I was absolutely taken ...

Zora Neale Hurston's first book, the story of the last survivor of the last American slave ship, has been published for the first time. Literary history was made on Tuesday with the publication o ...

In 1928, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Polk County, Florida to collect folklore. She ended up at a lumber camp, where African Americans from around the South worked long hours in difficult ...

“Zora Neale Hurston died without people knowing who ... a lot of letters and photos she had in her possession. They were all thrown into a burn barrel and set aflame by people working at nursing ...