Robert Hemenway

The first edition has an introduction by Franz Boas and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias . Later editions are provided with introductions by Robert Hemenway (1978) and Arnold Rampersad (1990).

The volume was reprinted in London two years later. Larry Neal provided an introduction in 1971, Robert Hemenway in 1984, and poet Maya Angelou in 1991.

This made an early, vital contribution to the regeneration of ZNH 's literary status. In her essay collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Walker writes movingly about Hurston's life's work, and...

In 1977 AW contributed a foreword to Robert Hemenway 's Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography, the first full-length study of Hurston ; she also offered support to its (white) author.