Zora Neale Hurston

An African-American author.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

About Janie Crawford, whose sexual awakening is compared to the blossoming of a pear tree. Janie successively marries Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake. When Tea Cake attacks her after being bitten by a rabid dog during a hurricane, she shoots him.

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Mules and Men

Her anthropology work, collected African-American folklore