The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

Paul Devlin on “The Life of Herod the Great,” by Zora Neale Hurston.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

More than 60 years after her death, Hurston’s unfinished novel “The Life of Herod the Great” showcases her passion for her ...

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her ...

Natalie identifies with Barbe-Nicole’s struggles alone, but it is two French strangers who nudge her to find a way forward — ...

Scholar and editor Deborah G. Plant shares with NPR the process of rescuing Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel, "The Life of Herod the Great." ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the hated king On a sticky Wednesday in 1973, the writer Alice Walker waded ...

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

Close to Jaffa Street, at the entrance to the Russian Compound, lies an ancient giant pillar, still partially embedded in the ...