Lucy Anne Hurston, the niece of literary luminary and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, is the author of "Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston." Though only three years old when Zora died in relative obscurity, Hurston has, over her lifetime, compiled a detailed knowledge of her aunt’s life and work with a historian’s observant eye.

Hurston’s work as an academic sociologist, with field research in Jamaica and St. Kitts, among other places, provides her with a unique connection to her aunt’s perspective and life. She has been the producer and host of two documentaries on Zora and the director of a high school production of her play Mule Bone. Lucy Anne Hurston currently teaches sociology at Manchester Community College (CT) and lives in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

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