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), [>]