Archive Manuscript Collections

The following sites are major repositories of Hurston's writings and describe a range of archival materials.

Zora Neale Hurston Rare Books & Manuscripts, Special Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida: links to correspondence, manuscripts, and biographical, critical, and other items.

Zora Neale Hurston Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: links to correspondence, holograph manuscripts, typescripts, carbon texts, notes, and miscellaneous writings.

The Zora Neale Hurston Plays, American Memory, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress: links to ten plays, most unpublished or never produced, that were composed by Hurston and recently "rediscovered."