 Milwaukee Public Library celebrates
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora
Neale Hurston
BOOKLIST
Books by Zora Neale Hurston
Books About Zora Neale Hurston and her Work
Fiction Inspired by or Similar
to Work of Zora Neale Hurston
Children’s Work Adapted From
Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
Books by Zora Neale Hurston
Their
Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
When independent Janie Crawford returns home, her small African-American
community begins to buzz with gossip about the outcome of her
affair with a younger man, in a novel set in the 1930's South.
Jonah's
Gourd Vine: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
John Buddy Pearson, a young Black man who becomes a popular
pastor at Zion Hope, is unable to reconcile his good intentions
and his natural instincts.
Moses,
Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston.
A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for
the struggle of American Blacks for release from slavery.
Seraph
on the Suwanee: A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
In a perceptive study of the meaning of love, two people find
themselves at once deeply in love and deeply at odds.
Sweat by
Zora Neale Hurston.
A short story documenting the struggles of Delia, a hard-working,
Christian woman who seeks to survive the abuse she suffers at
the hands of her sadistic husband.
Tell
My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by
Zora Neale Hurston.
The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the
voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.
Every
Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States by
Zora Neale Hurston.
Recently discovered, this new book by the master of African-American
folklore in more than fifty years features folktales about
love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected
in the late 1920s.
Go
Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale
Hurston.
A collection of newly found works by this respected
author of the Harlem Renaissance, including essays, poems,
folklore, and short stories, all originally created for the
Florida Federal Writers Project.
Dust
Tracks On A Road by Zora Neale Hurston.
The story of an African American woman who rose from
poverty to become an author who held a prominent place among
the artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
I
Love Myself When I am Laughing ... and Then Again When I
am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader edited
by Alice Walker.
Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure
in the Harlem Renaissance.
Folklore,
Memoirs, and Other Writings by Zora Neale
Hurston.
Mule
Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life by Langston Hughes
and Zora Neale Hurston.
The complete script of the three-act play is accompanied by
the Hurston short story, and notes on Lincoln Center Theater's
adaptation.
Books About Zora Neale Hurston and her Work
Jump
At De Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston by
A.P. Porter.
Sorrow's
Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston by
Mary E. Lyons.
Speak,
So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by
Lucy Ann Hurston.
Wrapped
In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by
Valerie Boyd.
Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit by Deborah
G. Plant.
Zora
Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters collected and
edited by Carla Kaplan.
Hitting
A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in
the Work of Zora Neale Hurston by Susan Edwards
Meisenhelder.
Fiction
Inspired by or Similar to Work of Zora Neale Hurston
Living
Water: A Novel by Obery Hendricks.
Sprung from the pages of the New Testament, in a village torn
apart by senseless violence, a young girl struggles to mute
her passion for life to survive the strict social confines
of her people.
The
Hatwearer's Lesson by Yolanda Joe.
Grandma Ollie and her granddaughter Terri have been together
since Terri's mom passed away in Grandma Ollie's arms, giving
birth. Born with an extraordinary sixth sense, Grandma Ollie
knows just when things are going to happen, good and bad.
So when her pen runs out the day she goes to enter Terri's
engagement into her bible, Grandma Ollie knows something's
wrong with her granddaughter, now a prominent attorney living
up North.
The
Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle.
Rejoining her family in 1963 Detroit in order to help prepare
for a new baby, Denise Palms witnesses her two older brothers'
painful entrance into the adult world and questions her own
heritage in the light of a tutor's relentless instruction.
Sugar by
Bernice McFadden.
Set in a small Arkansas town in the 1950s, this tale of loyalty
and friendship between two African American women finds Jude
turning to the church after the death of her daughter, and
to a young woman who turns out to be a prostitute.
Passing by
Nella Larsen.
Set in the 1920s, this novel portrays the life of an African-American
woman who attempts to pass for white.
Angel
of Harlem by Kuwana Haulsey.
A historical novel based on the life of Dr. May Chinn, the
first black female physician in New York City. Her odyssey
from aspiring musician, through her struggles against racism
to accomplish her goal of becoming a doctor and her friendships
with Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston are included.
Infants
of the Spring by Wallace Thurman.
Thurman's satirical novel offers a penetrating look at the
Harlem renaissance as well as the world and lives of black
artists and pseudo-artists during the 1920s.
Clover:
A Novel by Dori Sanders.
After her father dies within hours of being married to a white
woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother
to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural
black South Carolina community.
Children’s
Work Adapted From Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
The
Six Fools collected
by Zora Neale Hurston adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas.
A young man searches for three people more foolish than his
fiance and her parents.
The
Three Witches collected by Zora Neale Hurston adapted
by Joyce Carol Thomas.
Three hungry witches set out to eat two orphaned children while
their grandmother is away at the market.
Lies
and Other Tall Tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston;
adapted and illustrated by Christopher Myers.
A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale
Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.
Roy Makes
A Car by Mary E. Lyons; based on
a story collected by Zora Neale Hurston.
Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean
spark plugs by just looking at them, and he takes a two-dollar
bet that he can make an accident-proof car.
What's
The Hurry, Fox?: And Other Animal Stories collected
by Zora Neale Hurston adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas.
Presents a volume of pourquoi tales collected by Zora Neale
Hurston from her field research in the Gulf states in the 1920s. |
