Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and Selected Stories.

Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories (1995), edited by Cheryl A. Wall and issued as volume 74 in the Library of America series, represents the authoritative gathering of Hurston's fictional output and stands as a landmark act of literary recovery — a monument to a writer who died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave, with all of her books out of print, only to be recognized in subsequent decades as one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. The volume collects all four of Hurston's novels alongside a selection of her short fiction: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948). Alice Walker — the novelist most responsible for rescuing Hurston from obscurity, having placed a headstone on her unmarked grave in 1973 — wrote of Their Eyes Were Watching God that there is no book more important to her, a personal testament that encapsulates the larger cultural reclamation this Library of America volume represents. Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was a novelist, anthropologist, and folklorist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University, participated centrally in the Harlem Renaissance, and produced a body of work that drew as deeply from the oral traditions and folk culture of the African American South as from the formal literary tradition — making her, in the fullest sense, an original.