The Complete Stories - Softcover

Hurston, Zora Neale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060921714 ISBN 13: 9780060921712

Publisher: Perennial, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of short stories, most of which appeared in literary magazines during the author's lifetime, along with previously unpublished works, spans the career of one of the century's foremost African-American writers. Reprint.

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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: Perennial
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060921714
• ISBN 13: 9780060921712
• Binding: Paperback