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Zora Neale Hurston

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“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God …

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Dust Tracks on a Road is the 1942 autobiography of black American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.

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Mules and men is a book written by Zora Neale Hurston.

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"Through Hurston, the soul of the black South gained one of its most articulate interpreters." —New York Times During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston was praised for her writing but condemned for her independence and audacity. Her work fell into obscurity until the 1970s, when Alice Walker rediscovered Hurston's …