Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

A Novel by Zora Neale Hurston


Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie, her life and how she overcomes. It was Hurston's second published novel.

I had read a book called The Color Purple by Alice Walker (you've probably heard of it). I was surprised to see how much Walker had, to put it nicely, borrowed from Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

A site by Rita Hooks is dedicated to Their Eyes Were Watching God , and can be found here. The site is called "Conjured Into Being: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God".


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