Sharony Green is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama.
The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras (Johns Hopkins University Press), her latest book, was published in 2023. This book recovers an eight-month sojourn in Central America by one of the icon's of the Harlem Renaissance. Not unlike
Sharony's Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press, 2015), which was awarded the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize by the Western Association of Women Historians in 2016 for archival excellence, The Chase is attentive to the complicated ways in which human beings encounter one another.
Sharony's essay on her travels to Iceland appeared in Pan African Spaces Essays on Black Transnationalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) , which was edited by Msia Kibona Clark, Loy Azalia and Phiwokuhle Mnyandu.
Sharony's first book, Cuttin the Rug Under the Moonlit Sky: Stories and Drawings About a Bunch of Women Named Mae (Anchor, 1997) began as a journal and received press coverage in more than a dozen publications including Essence, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News and the Atlanta Constitution and Journal.
Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar (Miller Freeman, 1999), her second book, addresses the life of her late former father in law Grant Green, the most recorded artist for Blue Note Records, America's first indie jazz label. It won honorable mention for Best Jazz Book of the Year in the 1999 Readers Poll for Jazz Times, of the country's leading jazz magazines. Green also co-directed "The Grant Green Story," a documentary that premiered at the 2016 Harlem International Film Festival. Grant Green is also the subject of a "Morning Edition" profile that Sharony was invited to narrate in 1999 for National Public Radio (NPR).
Sharony's many interests include film and art.
