From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

Her father later became mayor of the town which Hurston would glorify in her stories as a place where African Americans could live as they desired independent of white society. ) (Library of America 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-84-4
Barracoon (1999)
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States (2001)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (2003)
Collected Plays (2008)


Film and television
In 1989 PBS aired a drama based on Hurston's life entitled Zora is My Name!. Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness and an attempt to avoid by trickery the rules of the game as laid down.

Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 publiZora Neale Hurstond short stories plays and essays Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7 1891 – January 28 1960) was an American folklorist anthropologist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.