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Zora Neale Hurston: Writer

Library and Internet resources devoted to the study of Zora Neale Hurston as an anthropologist, writer, and intellectual.

Awards

Fiction

Book review by Hurston available through the databases

JSTOR:
Hurston, Z. N. (1947, October-December). Voodoo in America by Robert Tallant. The Journal of American Folklore, 60(238), 436-438.

Other Books at the Library

Non-Fiction

Other Repositories for Zora's Work

Short Stories available in the databases

Academic Search Complete:
Hurston, Z. N. (1950, March 18). The conscience of the court. Saturday Evening Post, 222(38), 22-23, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122.

Hurston, Z. N. (2011, January 7). Monkey junk: A satire on modern divorce. Chronicle of Higher Education, 57(18), Br-B10.

Academic One File:
Hurston, Z. N. (1996, December-January). Under the bridge. American Visions, 11(6), 15.

Other Database Criticisms (Hard to Find) of Hurston's Work

Academic Search Complete:
Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God -
Negropings. (1937, September 20). Time, 30(12), 87.

New York Times Historical (ProQuest):
Brock, H. I. (1935, November 10). The full, true flavor of life in a Negro community: Mules and Men. By Zora Neale Hurston. With an introduction by Franz Boas. Ten illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. $3. The New York Times Book Review, p. BR4.

Tompkins, L. (1937, September 26). In the Florida glades. Their eyes were watching God. By Zora Neale Hurston. 286 pp. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. The New York Times Book Review,  p. 29.

JSTOR:
Forrest, E. A. (1938, January). Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The Journal of Negro History, 23(1), 106-107.

Hunton, W. A. (1938, January). The adventures of the brown girl in her search for life. Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The Journal of Negro Education, 7(1), 71-72.

McNeill, B. C. (1936, April 2).  Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston; Franz Boas; Miguel Covarrubias. The Journal of Negro History, 21(2), 223-225.

Literary Criticism

Plays at the library

Plays available online