You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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Publisher: Amistad
Published: January 18, 2022
ISBN: 9780063043855
Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.

Praise for You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don’t Know Us Negroes” adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston, who was a tireless crusader in all her writing, and ahead of her time…
— New York Times Book Review

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
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(Paperback)
Publisher: Amistad
Published: January 5, 2021
ISBN: 9780062915801
a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.

Praise for Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

These narratives comprise a rich tapestry of Hurston’s matchless vision and talent.
— BookPage

Barracoon

The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
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Published: May 8, 2018
ISBN: 9780062748201
(Audio)
ASIN: B079TX8ZDR
(Ebook)
ISBN: 9780062748225
A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last “Black Cargo” ship to arrive in the United States.

Praise for Barracoon

Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.
— Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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(Trade Paperback)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: March 19, 2013
ISBN: 9780060838676
(Trade Paperback Deluxe Edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780061120060
(Hardcover)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060199494
(Audio)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ASIN: B002UZN75I
(Ebook)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780061758126
The epic tale of Janie Crawford, whose quest for identity takes her on a journey during which she learns what love is, experiences life’s joys and sorrows, and come home to herself in peace. Her passionate story prompted Alice Walker to say, “There is no book more important to me than this one.”

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There is no book more important to me than this one.
— Alice Walker on Their Eyes Were Watching God

Mules and Men

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: January 8, 2008
ISBN: 9780061350177
(Ebook)
ISBN: 9780061749872
(Audio)
ASIN: B002UUMOM0

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Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read.
— Roger D. Abrahams

The Complete Stories

With an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Sieglinde Lemke
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: January 8, 2008
ISBN: 9780061350184

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Dust Tracks on a Road

An Autobiography
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: January 3, 2006
ISBN: 9780060854089
(Ebook)
ISBN: 9780062010438
(Audio)
ASIN: B01KW9XTTW
Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography

Praise for Dust Tracks on a Road

Warm, witty, imaginative…This is a rich and winning book.
The New Yorker

Every Tongue Got to Confess

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: October 1, 2002
ISBN: 9780060934545
(Ebook)
ISBN: 9780061741807
(Audio)
ASIN: B002VA9JE0
“Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences.” — From the Foreword by John Edgar Wideman

Praise for Every Tongue Got to Confess

An extraordinary treasure.
Boston Globe

Mule Bone

A Comedy of Negro Life
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780061651120
by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

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Moses, Man of the Mountain

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Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061695148

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The real thing, warm, humorous, poetic.
The New Yorker

Seraph on the Suwanee

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Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061651113
With an Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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A simple, colorfully written, and moving novel.
Saturday Review of Literature

Tell My Horse

Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
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Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061695131
(Ebook)
ISBN: 9780061847394

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Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained…an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.
New York Times Book Review

Jonah’s Gourd Vine

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Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061350191
(Ebook)
ISBN: 9780061865831
Originally published in 1934, Jonah’s Gourd Vine was the first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist.

Praise for Jonah’s Gourd Vine

A bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable.
— Carl Sandburg