Please join us for an open house celebrating Zora Neale Hurston at Beinecke Library, in celebration of the run of Hurston’s play Spunk at Yale Repertory Theatre. Objects on view in Beinecke’s reading room will include manuscripts donated by Hurston to Yale, letters from Hurston to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, and other friends, portraits of Hurston, first editions of Hurston’s books, and more.

Kindly note: all visitors to this special display will need to check any and all bags, coats, and other personal belongings in secure lockers on the library’s ground floor before going to the reading room.