A major figure in African American literature, perhaps best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God , Zora Neale Hurston was also an ambitious playwright and a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Available for the first time from Dover, three of Hurston's early plays appear in one collection: "Meet the Mamma" (1925), a send-up of Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement; "Color Struck" (1926), an exploration of colorism and other themes; and "Spears" (1926), a visit to an imaginary African kingdom.