Amistad will publish a previously unpublished Zora Neale Hurston novel, THE LIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT, on January 7, 2025, Hurston’s birthday. Scholar and literary critic Deborah Plant, who introduced Hurston’s book Barraccoon when it was published in 2018, will contextualize the novel. The new novel, which Hurston was working when she died, portrays the life of Herod the Great in first century Judea. The publisher writes, “Hurston’s Herod challenges the New Testament version of the tyrant who supposedly ordered the deaths of many children in order to save the Christ-child, as recorded in the book of Matthew, by suggesting […]
