Zora Neale Hurston (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Zora Neale Hurston
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Prose collection
- Genres: Memoir
- Subjects: African Americans
It is clear as one reads through these two volumes of Zola Neale Hurston’s works that above all else she valued a good story told in vivid language. The Library of America’s choice of Hurston as the first African American woman to include in its canon of “America’s greatest writers” not only acknowledges the influential position her work has come to have in the last quarter of the twentieth century but also provides access to a broad spectrum of her writings, including some that were not always easily accessible.
Since the late 1970’s, Hurston’s best-known novel,...
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