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"As early as I could remember...

".. it was the habit of the men folks particularly to gather on the store porch of evenings and swap stories. Even the women folk would stop and take a breath with them at times. As I child when I was sent down to Joe Clarke's store, I'd drag out my leaving as long as possible in order to hear more."

Zora Neale Hurston, from Dust Tracks on a Road

Further Resources

Hurston's books published during her life
Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; 1990.
Mules and Men, 1935; 1990.
Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; 1990.
Tell My Horse, 1938; 1990.
Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; 1991.
Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942; 1996.
Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948; 1991.

Hurston's publisher during her life was J.B. Lippincott; posthumously, it is HarperPerennial with the exception of her last novel, republished by Scribner.

Posthumously published
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader. Ed. by Alice Walker. New York: The Feminist Press, 1979.

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life. Written with Langston Hughes. Edited and with introductions by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.

The Complete Stories. Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Sieglinde Lemke. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States. Edited by Carla Kaplan, foreword by John Edgar Wideman. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Other works about Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance
Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner, 2003.

Hemenway, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Huggins, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea. 1940. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Kaplan, Carla, ed. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother's Gardens. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.