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The bulk of zora neale hurston s 1891 1960 short fiction is set in her native florida, as are most of her novels. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never. When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of her books were out of print. Excerpts from writings of zora neale hurston click for a short bio of hurston excerpts from sweat by zora neale hurston she lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matromonial trial. Collected in the late 1920s, every tongue got to confess is the third volume of folktales from the celebrated author of their eyes were watching god.
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