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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Introduction
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About the Author
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Hurston's Books Published during Her Life
Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; 1990.
Mules and Men, 1935; 1990.
Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; 1990.
Tell My Horse, 1938; 1990.
Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; 1991.
Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942; 1996.
Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948; 1991.

Hurston's publisher during her life was J.B. Lippincott, with the exception of her last novel, which was republished by Scribner. Her reprinted works are published by HarperCollins.

Posthumously Published
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader. Ed. by Alice Walker. New York: The Feminist Press, 1979.

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life. Written with Langston Hughes. Edited and with introductions by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.

The Complete Stories. Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Sieglinde Lemke. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States. Edited by Carla Kaplan, foreword by John Edgar Wideman. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Other Works about Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance
Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner, 2003.

Hemenway, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Huggins, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Hurston, Lucy Anne, and the Estate of Zora Neale Hurston. Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

Kaplan, Carla, ed. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother's Gardens. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountains wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands."
-Zora Neale Hurston
Dust Tracks on a Road





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