New York Daily News Google Doodle honors ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ author Zora Neale Hurston, luminary of the Harlem Renaissance Hurston, best known for her seminal novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” was born in Florida on Jan. 7, 1891, but she moved to New York in 1925 with only $1.50 to her name. She soon became friends with Langston Hughes and Dorothy West. Carla Kaplan, a professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and […]