folklorists

Explores the women, including maids, mothers, neighbors, and female friends, who influenced the creation of the Brothers Grimm and their famous fairy tales.

Provides insight into the life of Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston through a collection of over five hundred letters she wrote to literary friends, authors, publishers, colleagues, and others, between 1918 and 1959, the year before her death.

A documentary detailing the life of twentieth-century African-American author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston that describes her childhood, education, travels, professional accomplishments, novels, and more.

A study of the life and art of the novelist who published more books during her lifetime than any other black woman.

An account by the American author of her rise to a place of prominence among American writers.

Profiles Zora Neale Hurston, whose childhood love of stories led her to a successful career as a folklorist and author of poems, novels, short stories, and plays.

A first-hand account of her life by novelist and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, and focuses on her childhood, family, education, religion, and relationships.

A biography of Zora Neale Hurston that provides information on her childhood, family life, education, and writing career.

Presents a biography of Zora Neale Hurston, chronicling her childhood and detailing the influences that shaped her career as an author. Examines how Hurston worked through the poverty that followed her much of her life and charts the rise in the popularity of her books that followed her death. Includes black-and-white photographs.

A biography of the folklorist and novelist who recorded the traditional songs and stories of the people of Haiti, the Hopi Indians, and black communities in the South, connecting the African-American traditions to the cultures of Africa.