“Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale” The book “Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston”, was written during the Harlem Renaissance, which was a period of time between the end of World War 1 and the middle of the 1920s where the cultural, social, and artistic explosion took place. Harlem was considered a cultural center for the artist, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars (Jim Crow). This book was the first novel to be written by a black woman in that Era. The author used a distinctly “Southern sensibility” throughout the whole book which helped a reader understand what the setting was back in the Harlem Era. The author did a phenomenal job throughout this book by narrating it in the third person and divulge the characters