Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!! After moving back to Florida, Hurston wrote and published her literary anthology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935), and her first three novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939). She also wrote fiction about contemporary issues in the Black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. She had an interest in African-American and Caribbean folklore, and how these contributed to the community's identity. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while a student at Barnard College and Columbia University. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories.

Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. Zora Neale Hurston (Janu : 17 : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston