Civil Rights activist Zora Neale Hurston is the new Google Doodle today in order to celebrate what would have been her 123rd birthday. Read on for the facts on Hurston to see why she’s someone to ...

‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, The Life of Herod The Great. Hurston, the accomplished Black writer, folklorist and ...

Zora Neale Hurston may have been buried in an unmarked grave when she died in 1960, but her star has been rising, posthumously, ever since Alice Walker brought her back to public’s attention in the ...

“You are my idea of the world’s worst secretary,” the white woman once told the Black woman. But today she was saying, “Come on, Zora, with your car and let’s you and I go on a trip.” So Miss Fannie ...