In the 1937 book by Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God differed in several ways from the movie though, mainly being that Ealy’s character Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods was far less ...

then visited Haiti until the end of the year. In early November of 1936, she began writing Their Eyes Were Watching God and finished it the third week of December, either while still in Haiti or ...

Sassy Janie Starks looks unlike to get anywhere in pre-Great War Easton, Florida, but lands the best colored catch, lively shopkeeper Joe Starks, who even becomes town mayor. However her refusal ...