Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937. It is a work of classics and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Name: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston

by Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

Classics · ranked #23 in category

Janie Crawford, a Black woman in early 20th-century Florida, tells the story of her three marriages and her search for love, self-determination and voice. Hurston's novel was rediscovered by Alice Walker in the 1970s and is now central to both the Black literary tradition and the feminist canon.

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