About this Item
Originally published by J.B. Lippincott in 1934. xv. New foreword by Rita Dove. 206pp. Series editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with an afterword entitled "Zora Neale Hurston: 'A Negro Way Of Saying.'" 207-217pp. Selected bibliography. Chronology. 219-229pp. Pictorial Soft Cover. Seller Inventory # 002316
Bibliographic Details
Title: JONAH'S GOURD VINE
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers/Perennial Library
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Type: Soft Cover
About this title
The first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Originally published in 1934, it was praised by Carl Sandburg as "a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable."
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.”
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