to establish its own local government, and where her family was prominent in the community. Hurston was raised in Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns in the U.S. Take a look at some things you might not know about this seminal novel.
It wasn’t until the 1970s that readers embraced God wholeheartedly, inspiring a generation of provocative artists from Maya Angelou to Beyonce. In an era when “black literature” was expected to be optimistic and uplifting, Hurston’s story of a woman sifting through the ashes of her love life was stark in its depiction of a woman’s independence and sexual freedom. Published in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God was not initially well-received.
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