- African American women, Fiction, Psychology, Self-realization
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny.
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- Author
- Zora Neale Hurston
- First published
- February 12, 2008
- Pages
- 231
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Moonhak-kwaJisung-Sa Publishing -, Harper Perrenial Modern Classics
- Editions
- 66
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781983254246
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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston)
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