Principal Works
Color Struck: A Play in Four Scenes 1925
The First One: A Play in One Act 1927
Fast and Furious [with Clinton Fletcher and Tim Moore] 1931
The Great Day 1932
*The Fiery Chariot 1935
Polk County: A Comedy of Negro Life on a Sawmill Camp [with Dorothy Waring] 1944
**Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life [with Langston Hughes] 1991
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (novel) 1934
Mules and Men (short stories) 1935
Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel) 1937
Tell My Horse [also published as Voodoo Gods: An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti] (nonfiction) 1938
Moses, Man of the Mountain [also published as The Man of the Mountain] (novel) 1939
Dust Tracks on a Road (autobiography) 1942
Seraph on the Suwanee (novel) 1948
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing … and Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (fiction and nonfiction) 1979
The Sanctified Church (essays) 1981
Spunk: The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (short stories) 1985
*This one-act play, based on “Ole Massa and John Who Wanted To Go to Heaven” from Mules and Men, survives in typescript only.
**This comedy, completed by Hughes and Hurston in 1930, was first staged in 1991 with a prologue and epilogue by George Houston Bass.
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