Permissions Acknowledgments

Excerpts throughout totaling approximately 434 words from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright 1937 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1965 by Joel Hurston and John C. Hurston. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Excerpts throughout totaling approximately 7,919 words from Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright 1942 by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright renewed © 1972 by John C. Hurston. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Excerpts throughout totaling approximately 1,017 words from The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston. Introduction copyright © 1995 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Sieglinde Lemke. Compilation copyright © 1995 by Vivian Bowden, Lois J. Hurston Gaston, Clifford Hurston, Lucy Ann Hurston, Winifred Hurston Clark, Zora Mack Goins, Edgar Hurston, Sr., and Barbara Hurston Lewis. Afterword and Bibliography copyright © 1995 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Excerpts throughout totaling approximately 576 words from Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright 1934 by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright renewed © 1962 by John C. Hurston. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Excerpts throughout totaling approximately 991 words from Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright 1935 by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright renewed © 1963 by Joel Hurston and John C. Hurston. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Excerpts throughout totaling approximately 802 words from Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright 1939 by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright renewed © 1967 by Joel Hurston and John C. Hurston. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Excerpts throughout totaling approximately 301 words from Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright 1948 by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright renewed © 1976 by Everett E. Hurston, Sr. Foreword copyright © 1991 by Hazel V. Carby. Afterword, Selected Bibliography, and Chronology copyright © 1990 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.