Zora Neale Hurston

The author of such great works as <I>Their Eyes Were Watching God</I> <I>Moses</I> <I>Man of the Mountain</I> <I>Jonah's Gourd Vine</I> <I>Mules and Men</I> as well as essays folklore short stories poetry and more Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as one of the pillars of the Harlem Renaissance as well as one of the most important and influential African American writers of the past century. Here Plant offers a biography of the literary master that takes her spirituality into account in both her life and her works in order to shape a fuller picture of the woman the writer the philosopher and the spirit that animated this gifted American author.