Zora!

in Harlem Renaissance, [>]

  insecurity and lack of selfconfidence, [>]

  poems, [>], [>], [>]

  pride in black culture, [>], [>]

  Hungerford School, [>], [>], [>]

  Hurst, Fannie, [>]

  financial help for Zora, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  as judge in writing contest, [>]

  mentorship of Zora, [>]

  popularity as writer, [>]

  preface to Jonah's Gourd Vine, [>]

  Hurston, John, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Hurston, Lucy, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Hurston, Mattie Moge, [>]–[>], [>]

  Hurston, Zora Neale, [>], [>], [>]

  birth and naming of, [>]–[>]

  in brother's home, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  childhood home, [>]

  death and headstone, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  festivals honoring, [>]

  health problems, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  imagination, [>]–[>]

  impulsiveness, [>]

  lies about age, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  life time line, [>]–[>]

  loneliness, [>]–[>]

  love for reading, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  love for travel, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  marriages, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  mother's death, [>]–[>]

  pride in black culture, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  self-confidence, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  stepmother and breakup of family, [>], [>]–[>]

  See also writing career

  Jamaica, folklore project in, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Jelliffe, Rowena and Russell, [>]

  "John Redding Goes to Sea," [>]–[>]

  Johnson, Charles S., [>]–[>], [>]

  Johnson, Georgia Douglas, [>]

  Johnson James Weldon, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Jonah's Gourd Vine, [>], [>], [>]

  Journal of Negro History, [>], [>]

  Jungle Scandals, [>]

  "Lawrence of the River," [>]

  Lewis, Cudjo, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  "lies" and "lying sessions," [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Life of Kossula, The, [>], [>]

  "Life Story of Mrs. Ruby J. McCollum!, The," [>]

  Lincoln Park Academy, [>], [>]

  Lippincott Company publisher

  books published, [>], [>], [>]

  books rejected, [>], [>]

  funeral donation, [>]

  interest in future books, [>], [>]

  Lives of Barney Turk, The, [>]–[>], [>]

  Locke, Alain, [>]

  as assistant to Godmother, [>], [>]

  criticisms of Zora's works, [>], [>]

  education, [>]

  in Harlem Renaissance, [>]

  as judge in writing contest, [>]

  opinion of female students, [>]

  in Saturday Nighters writers' group, [>]

  submission of Zora's story to magazine, [>]

  Lomax, Alan, [>]

  magazine and newspaper articles

  "Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver," [>]

  "Lawrence of the River," [>]

  "Life Story of Mrs. Ruby J. McCollum!, The," [>]

  "Race Cannot Become Great Until It Recognizes Its Talent," [>]

  "You Don't Know Us Negroes," [>]–[>]

  marriages

  first, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  second, [>]–[>]

  third, [>]–[>]

  Mason, Charlotte "Godmother," [>]

  closeness with Zora, [>]–[>]

  death, [>]

  financial aid for creative artists, [>]–[>], [>]

  support for Langston Hughes, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  support for Zora, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Meyer, Annie Nathan, [>], [>], [>]

  Miami Herald, [>]

  Miller, May, [>]–[>], [>]

  Mitchell, Burroughs, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Morgan Academy, [>]–[>], [>]

  Moses, Man of the Mountain, [>], [>]

  movie writing, [>]–[>]

  Ms. magazine, [>]

  Mule Bone

  collaboration on writing of, [>]–[>], [>]

  division of anticipated profits, [>]–[>]

  feud over, [>]–[>]

  publication of, [>]

  rewriting and ownership of, [>], [>]–[>]

  Mules and Men, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  "Muttsy," [>]

  "My People" (Hughes), [>]

  "Negro Speaks of Rivers, The" (Hughes), [>]

  North Carolina College for Negroes, [>]–[>]

  Nugent, Bruce, [>], [>]

  O'Neill, Eugene, [>]

  "O Night," [>]

  Opportunity magazine, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Perkins, Maxwell, [>]–[>]

  phrenology, [>]–[>], [>]

  Pitts, James Howell, [>]–[>]

  Pittsburgh Courier, [>]

  plagiarism, [>]–[>], [>]

  plays and musicals

  Color Struck, [>]–[>], [>]

  failures, [>]–[>]

  Fast and Furious, [>]

  folk opera, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Great Day, The, [>]

  Jungle Scandals, [>]

  Mule Bone, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Singing Steel, [>]–[>]

  From Sun to Sun, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  poems

  first published, [>]

  to Godmother, [>]

  "Home," [>]

  "O Night," [>]

  poverty

  depletion of savings, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  eviction from house, [>]

  inability to ship manuscript, [>]

  insufficient funds for funeral, [>]

  jobs necessitated by, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  pawning of typewriter, [>]

  during school years, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  theft from beggar, [>]

  welfare, [>]

  Price, Albert, III, [>]–[>]

  Punter, Percival McGuire "Percy," [>]–[>], [>]

  Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, [>]–[>]

  Rollins College, [>], [>]

  Rosenwald Fund, [>]

  Saturday Evening Post, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Saturday Nighters writers' group, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Scribner publisher

  funeral donation, [>]

  publication of Seraph on the Suwanee, [>]–[>], [>]

  rejections, [>], [>], [>]

  Seraph on the Suwanee, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Sheen, Herbert, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Singing Steel, [>]–[>]

  Smathers, Judge Frank, [>]–[>]

  "Spunk," [>], [>]

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, [>]

  stories

  "Black Death," [>]

  "Bone of Contention, The," [>]

  "Conscience of the Court, The," [>], [>], [>]

  "Drenched in Light," [>]–[>]

  first nationally distributed, [>]–[>]

  first published, [>]

  "Gilded Six-Bits, The," [>]

  "John Redding Goes to Sea," [>]–[>]

  "Muttsy," [>]

  "Spunk," [>], [>]

  "Sweat," [>]

  Story magazine, [>]

  Stylus magazine, [>]–[>], [>]

  "Sweat," [>]

  Tell My Horse, [>], [>]–[>]

  theater. See plays and musicals

  Their Eyes Were Watching God, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Thompson, Louise, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Thurman, Wallace, [>], [>], [>]

  Van Vechten, Carl, [>], [>], [>]

  voodoo, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Walker, Alice, [>], [>]

  Walker, Madame C. J., [>]

  Washington Tribune, [>]

  Waters, Ethel,
[>], [>]

  Winfrey, Oprah, [>]

  Woodson, Carter, [>]–[>], [>]

  writing career, [>], [>]

  awards and prizes, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  cofounding of literary magazine, [>]–[>]

  commitment to, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  destruction of manuscripts and documents, [>], [>], [>]

  ghostwriting, [>]–[>]

  movie writing, [>]–[>]

  plagiarism, [>]–[>], [>]

  posthumous recognition for, [>]–[>]

  realistic dialogue and familiar topics, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  start of, [>]

  style hallmarks, [>]

  See also books; plays and musicals; poems; stories

  Wunsch, Robert, [>], [>]

  zombies, [>]–[>]

  Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography (Hemenway), [>]

  Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (documentary film), [>]