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    -WIKIPEDIA: Zore Neale Hurston
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    -LETTER: Zora Neale Hurston: In a controversial letter, the versatile author expressed frustration with critics of segregation (JSTOR)
    -EXCERPT: from The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston (litHub)
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    -AUDIO: How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published (Adriana Gallardo, 1/07/25, NPR: Morning Edition)
    -ARTICLE: Unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel to be published 65 years after her death: The novelist’s final work, The Life of Herod the Great, will be published in January (Isabelle Rodney, 6 Aug 2024, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: Where to start with: Zora Neale Hurston: From befriending the last African enslaved in the US to meeting with zombies in Haiti, the folklorist, anthropologist and Harlem Renaissance writer – who has a novel posthumously published today – was a sensitive chronicler of other people’s lives (Colin Grant, 7 Jan 2025, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?: The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time (Ellen Wexler, 1/16/25, Smithsonian)
    -ESSAY: How a Chance Rescue Saved Zora Neale Hurston’s Unpublished Novel From Turning into Ashes: Editor Deborah Plant discusses the process of bringing "The Life of Herod the Great" to publication (Donna Hemans, 1/17/25, ElectricLit)
    -REVIEW: of You Don’t Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston (Colin Grant, The Observer)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: The Zora Neale Hurston We Don’t Talk About: In the new nonfiction collection “You Don’t Know Us Negroes,” what emerges is a writer who mastered a Black idiom but seldom championed race pride. (Lauren Michele Jackson, February 14, 2022, The New Yorker)
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    -REVIEW: of The Life of Herod the Great By Zora Neale Hurston (Kay Daly, Chicago Review of Books)
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    -REVIEW: of 'Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston' by Valerie Boyd (Jake Lamar, Washington Post)