The Complete Stories - Hardcover

Hurston, Zora Neale

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060167327 ISBN 13: 9780060167325

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

A complete collection of the great African-American author's short works includes "John Redding Goes to Sea," "Spunk," "The Gilded Six Bits," "The Conscience of the Court," "Possum or Pig," "Cock Robin Beale Street," and "Book of Harlem."

About this title

Review:

"One of the greatest writers of our time."-- Toni Morrison

About the Author:

Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph: "Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South."

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0060167327
• ISBN 13: 9780060167325
• Binding: Hardcover