A biography of African American author Zora Neale Hurston.

"Servants are servants" -- "The moon ran after me" -- "In sorrow's kitchen" -- "The golden stairs" -- "A toe-hold on the world" -- 1927 -- "Most gorgeous possibilities" -- "You. LANGSTON HUGHES. Cut me to the quick" -- "It cost $1.83 to mail, and I did not have it" -- "I wrote it in seven weeks": Their eyes were watching God -- "I shall keep trying" -- "I had exactly four pennies" -- "Nothing is destructible": the rebirth of Zora Neale Hurston -- Two "lies" (folktales) collected in Florida by Zora Neale Hurston.