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Month: October 2014

Banned Books Awareness: “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

October 5, 2014 R. Wolf Baldassarro 5

Written in 1937 by Zora Neale Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” tells the story of Janie Crawford, a 16-year-old whose grandmother decides to marry her off to a well-respected man in the community. Fellow censored author, Alice Walker, had this to say about the book: “There is no book […]

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