Deborah G. Plant

Deborah G. Plant is an African American and Africana Studies Independent Scholar and Writer, specializing in the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. She is the editor of Hurston’s posthumous New York Times bestseller Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” and The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, and is the author of Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit; Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston; and Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times.