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their eyes were watching god  

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  • Folklorist, anthropologist, novelist, playwright, and “genius of the South” Zora Neale Hurston, wrote her third novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, in 7 weeks in 1937. Although the novel is a classic today, its early critics—Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, and others—gave it a mixed reception. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Their Eyes were Watching God]

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