Near the end of her life, Zora Neale Hurston wrote to her editor at Scribner’s that she was “under the spell of a great obsession.” She had been working feverishly on the early chapters of a ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. A depiction of Herod the Great. The first time I felt betrayed was when ...

PHILLIPS'S "HEROD" ACTED AT THE LYRIC; A Production of Great Pictorial Beauty of a Notable Tragedy. LAST ACT MOST IMPRESSIVE In It Mr. Faversham Redeems Earlier Shortcomings -- Miss Opp's Artistic ...

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 death. The novel expands on her interest in the ancient king of Judea.

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'The Life of Herod the Great' by Zora Neale Hurston. Akindele John/Stephen Brayda/HarperCollins. Compared to figures like Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, Herod lived on the cusp of a new era.

Herod, at that time, was looking for a project in which to get involved. The previous year, he had finished rebuilding the central area of the Temple in Jerusalem, which had taken him 15 years.

The Life of Herod the Great—which includes a preface and introduction written by Hurston and commentary written by Plant—stops at chapter 19. “There is no ending as such, because it’s just ...

‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Courtesy of Barbara Hurston Lewis, Faye Hurston, and Lois Gaston; Akindele John/Stephen Brayda ...