The acclaimed academic and author also edited an upcoming collection of journals by Alice Walker, who called her “one of the best people ever to live.” Valerie Boyd, the renowned academic, editor and ...

Based on the life of Zora Neale Hurston, new play “Let the People Sing” shines a light on a racist incident in Rollins College’s past.

A new documentary about Valerie Boyd, the acclaimed biographer of Zora Neale Hurston, will be screened this Saturday at the Tara theater in Atlanta as part of the BronzeLens Film Festival. Called ...

Beginning when she was an undergraduate at Spelman College, Jennifer Freeman Marshall has devoted most of her academic career to exploring the anthropology of Zora Neale Hurston. Raised in Eatonville, ...

Try this short quiz on writers who had very public spats with each other. By J. D. Biersdorfer But these days, it’s easier to preserve it on the record. By John McWhorter In addition to writing an ...

Though Zora Neale Hurston is highly lauded now, few outside the literary scholar space know much about her journey and the intensive work that went into crafting her novels, some of which are now ...

Zora Neale Hurston Florida Education Foundation is taking possession of the literary icon's final a Historical Landmark since 1991. Zora Neale Hurston, American literary icon, will have her work and ...

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem ...

Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance author, wanted to stage a play with an all-Black cast at Rollins ...

‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

Civil Rights activist Zora Neale Hurston is the new Google Doodle today in order to celebrate what would have been her 123rd birthday. Read on for the facts on Hurston to see why she’s someone to ...

Highlights include a Prince musical in Minnesota, “Working Girl” in California, a Zora Neale Hurston play in Connecticut and “Paranormal Activity” in Illinois. By Laura Collins-Hughes Try this short ...