From Luababa to Polk County: Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

This fully edited volume contains nine of Zora Neale Hurston’s unpublished plays at the Library of Congress, including three of her full-length Polk County, Cold Keener and De Turkey and De Law. This book is expected be a major contribution to American literary scholarship as it portrays customary African American life in the 20th century through a highly nonconformist African American lens. Zora Neale Hurston is a world-renowned author, best known for her fiction and folklore, including her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road (1942).