Zora Neale Hurston and the WPA in Florida

Audio

Zora Neale Hurston

• Zora Neale Hurston
  This is a compilation of Zora Neale Hurston sound recordings created while she worked for the WPA in the 1930s.
  

Collections

WPA

• WPA Stories
  The stories presented here were created by writers working for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) in Florida. These writings present a variety of subject matter, from folk stories and nature writings to scientific research and Florida history, in mostly short pieces intended for use in Florida classrooms.
  
  
• WPA Church Records
  Survey workers ventured out into the field to document church histories and record holdings by interviewing clergy and congregation members in Florida.

Additional Resources at Other Institutions

The following institutions provide information about and materials related to Zora Neale Hurston:

Library of Congress

• Zora Neale Hurston: Recordings, Manuscripts, Photographs, and Ephemera
• Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

University of Florida

• University of Florida, Zora Neale Hurston Papers

Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials (PALMM)

• Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials
  PALMM is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship.

Selected Bibliography

Note: This bibliography does not cover all of Hurston’s literary works. Rather, it provides a listing of the books containing useful historical information about Hurston, as well as some of the historically significant essays she herself produced as a member of the Florida Federal Writers’ Project.

• Bordelon, Pamela, ed. Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers’ Project. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
• Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner, 2003.
• Croft, Robert W. A Zora Neale Hurston Companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
• Hemenway, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977, 1980.
• Hicks, John. Zora Neale Hurston: A Portrait. Orlando: Sentinel Star, 1978.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1942.
• Kaplan, Carla. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. New York: Doubleday, 2002.
• Lyons, Mary E. Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990.
• Plant, Deborah G. Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007.
• Wall, Cheryl, ed. Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings. New York: Library of America, 1995.

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