Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

by Zora Neale Hurston

Overview

"Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information."―New York Times Book Review. This travelogue into a dark world, based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica during her visits in the 1930s, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practises, paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061695131
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	12/30/2008
Series:	P.S. Series
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	158,984
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); an international bestselling nonfiction work (Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” 2018); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1928. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. 

Date of Birth:

January 7, 1891

Date of Death:

January 28, 1960

Place of Birth:

Eatonville, Florida

Place of Death:

Fort Pierce, Florida

Education:

B.A., Barnard College, 1928 (the school's first black graduate). Went on to study anthropology at Columbia University.