Croft, Robert W., A Zora Neale Hurston Companion, Greenwood Press, 2002.

This indexed overview considers Hurston's literary career as a whole and provides a useful reference source for examining the author's short fiction in relation to her other writings.

Gates, Henry L., Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad Press, 1999.

This collection of analysis of Hurston's entire body of work provides a series of essays from diverse critical lenses and time periods.

Hurston, Zora Neale, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, edited by Carla Kaplan, Doubleday, 2002.

A comprehensive collection of Hurston's letters, this volume is vividly suggestive about her life, writings, and decline in popularity.

Miles, Diana, Women, Violence, & Testimony in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston, Peter Lang Publishing, 2003.

Miles's book focuses on some of the most important themes in "Sweat," as evidenced in several of Hurston's other works. It is an excellent...