"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

Written in only seven weeks, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, says she felt compelled to write by a "force somewhere in space". Initially, the book wasn't well-received upon its publication in 1937; the semi-autobiographical story only got its due in the '70s.

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