Primary Bibliography

1921 "John Redding Goes to Sea." Stylus 1 (May): 11–22.
  "O Night." Stylus 1 (May): 42.
1922 "Poem." Howard University Record 16 (February): 236
  "Night." Negro World.
  "Journey’s End." Negro World.
  "Passion." Negro World.
1924 "Drenched in Light." Opportunity 2 (December): 371–74.
1925 "Spunk." Opportunity 3 (June): 171–73.
  "Spunk." The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke. New York: Albert & Charles Boni. 105–11.
  "Magnolia Flower." Spokesman (July): 26–29.
  "The Hue and Cry About Howard University." Messenger (September):315–19, 338.
  "Under the Bridge." X–Ray: Journal of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (December).
  "The Ten Commandments of Charm." X–Ray: Journal of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (December).
  "On Noses." X–Ray: Journal of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (December).
1926 "John Redding Goes to Sea." Opportunity 4 (January): 16–21. [reprint]
  "Muttsy." Opportunity 4 (August): 246–50.
  "Possum or Pig." Forum 76 (September): 465.
  "The Eatonville Anthology." Messenger (September–November): 261–62, 297, 319, 332.
  Color Struck: A Play Fire!! 1 (November): 7–15.
  "Sweat." Fire!! 1 (November): 40–45.
  "Spears: A Play." X–Ray: Journal of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (December).
1927 The First One: A Play. In Ebony and Topaz, ed. Charles Johnson. New York: National Urban League. 53–37.
  "Cudjoe’s Own Story of the Last African Slaver." Journal of Negro History 12 (October): 648–63.
  "Communication." Journal of Negro History 12 (October): 664–67.
1928 "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." World Tomorrow 11 (May): 215–16.
1930 "Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas." Journal of American Folklore 43 (July–September): 294–312.
1931 "Hoodoo in America." Journal of American Folklore 44 (October–December): 317–418.
1933 "The Gilded Six–Bits." Story 3 (August): 60–70.
1934 Jonah’s Gourd Vine. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.
  "Characteristics of Negro Expression." In Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart. 39–46.
  "Conversions and Visions." In Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart.. 47–49.
  "Shouting." In Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart. 49–50.
  "The Sermon." In Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart. 50–54.
  "Mother Catharine." In Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart. 54–57.
  "Uncle Monday." In Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart. 57–61.
  "Spirituals and Neo–Spirituals." In Negro: An Anthology. Ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart. 359–61.
  "The Fire and the Cloud." Challenge 1 (September): 10–14.
  "Race Cannot Be Great Until It Recognizes Its Talent." Washington Tribune (December 29).
1935 "Full of Mud, Sweat and Blood." New York Herald Tribune Books (November 3): 15–16.
  Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.
1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.
  "Fannie Hurst by Her Ex–Amanuensis." Saturday Review (October 9): 15–16.
  "Star–Wrassling Sons–of–the–Universe." New York Herald Tribune Books (December 26): 4.
1938 "Rural Schools for Negroes." New York Herald Tribune Books (February 20): 24.
  "Stories of Conflict." Saturday Review (April 2): 32.
  Tell My Horse Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.
1939 "Now Take Noses." In Cordially Yours. Ed. Boston Herald Book Fair Committee. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. 25–27.
  Cold Rainy Day [musical composition based on Mules and Men]. (January 27).
  John Henry [musical composition based on Mules and Men]. (January 27).
  Moses, Man of the Mountain. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.
1941 "Cock Robin, Beale Street." Southern Literary Messenger 3 (July): 321–23.
1942 Dust Tracks on a Road. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.
  "Story in Harlem Song." American Mercury 55 (July): 84–96.
  "Lawrence of the River." Saturday Evening Post (September 5): 18, 55–57.
1943 "Lawrence of the River." Condensed in Negro Digest 1 (March): 47–49.
  "The ‘Pet Negro’ System." American Mercury 56: 593–600.
  "The ‘Pet Negro’ System." Condensed in Negro Digest 1 (June): 37–40.
  "High John de Conquer." American Mercury 57 (October): 450–58.
  "Negroes Without Self–Pity." American Mercury 57 (November): 601–03.
1944 "The Last Slave Ship." American Mercury 58 (March): 351–58.
  "The Last Slave Ship." Condensed in Negro Digest 2 (May): 11–16.
  "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience." Negro Digest 2 (June): 25–26.
1945 "The Rise of the Begging Joints." American Mercury 60 (March): 288–94.
  "The Rise of the Begging Joints." Condensed in Negro Digest 3 (May).
  "Crazy for This Democracy." Negro Digest 4 (December): 46–48.
1946 "Negroes." The New International Year Book, 1945. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  "Bible, Played by Ear in Africa." New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (November 24): 5.
  "Jazz Regarded as Social Achievement." New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (December 22): 8.
1947 "The Negro in the United States." Encyclopedia Americana.
  "Thirty Days Among Maroons." New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (January 12): 8.
  "The Transplanted Negro." New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (March 9): 20.
  Caribbean Melodies for Chorus of Mixed Voices and Soloists. Arranged by William Grant Still. Philadelphia: Oliver Ditson.
  Review of Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant. Journal of American Folklore 60 (October–December): 436–38.
1948 Seraph on the Suwanee New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1949 "At the Sound of the Conch Shell." New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (March 20): 4.
1950 "The Conscience of the Court." Saturday Evening Post (March 18): 22–23, 112–22.
  "What White Publishers Won’t Print." Negro Digest 8 (April): 85–89./td>
  "I Saw Negro Votes Peddled." American Legion Magazine 49 (November): 12–13, 54–57, 59–60.
1951 "Some Fabulous Caribbean Riches Revealed." New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (February 4): 5.
  "Why the Negro Won’t Buy Communism." American Legion Magazine 50 (June): 14–15, 55–60.
  "I Saw Negro Votes Peddled." Negro Digest 9 (September): 77–85.
  "A Negro Voter Sizes Up Taft." Saturday Evening Post (December 8): 29, 150.
1952 "Zora’s Revealing Story of Ruby’s First Day in Court." Pittsburgh Courier (October 11).
  "Victim of Fate." Pittsburgh Courier (October 11).
  "Ruby Sane." Pittsburgh Courier (October 19).
  "Ruby McCollum Fights for Life." Pittsburgh Courier (November 22).
  "Bare Plot Against Ruby." Pittsburgh Courier (November 29).
  "Trial Highlights." Pittsburgh Courier (November 29).
  "McCollum–Adams Trial Highlights." Pittsburgh Courier (December 27).
1953 "Ruby Bares Her Love." Pittsburgh Courier (January 3).
  "Doctor’s Threats, Tussle over Gun Led to Slaying." Pittsburgh Courier (January 10).
  "Ruby’s Troubles Mount." Pittsburgh Courier (January 17).
  "The Life Story of Mrs. Ruby J. McCollum!" Pittsburgh Courier (February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2).
1956 "The Trial of Ruby McCollum." In Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee Jail by William Bradford Huie. New York: E.P. Dutton. 89–101.
1958 "The Juvenile Delinquency." Fort Pierce Chronicle (December 12).
1959 "The Tripson Story." Fort Pierce Chronicle (February 6).
  "The Farm Laborer at Home." Fort Pierce Chronicle (February 27).
  "Hoodoo and Black Magic." Fort Pierce Chronicle (July 11, 1958–August 7, 1959).
1981 The Sanctified Church Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island
1991 Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life. Written with Langston Hughes. Ed. George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Harper Perennial
1999 Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers’ Project. Ed. Pamela Bordelon. New York: Norton
2001 Every Tongue Got to Confess: Folk-Tales from the Gulf States. Ed. Carla Kaplan. New York: HarperCollins
2002 Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. Ed. Carla Kaplan. New York: Doubleday
2008 Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays. Ed. Jean Lee Cole and Charles Mitchell New Brunswick: Rutgers