In a short story by this author, the abusive Sykes is killed by a rattlesnake he plants in some washing to kill his wife.
In a short story by this author, the abusive Sykes is killed by a rattlesnake he plants in some washing to kill his wife. This author of "Sweat" described slavery as the "price [she] paid for civilization" in an essay in which she also described not feeling that she was a "Negro" until she moved to Jacksonville in her teens, titled "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." Dying in poverty, the attempt to find her unmarked grave was described by Alice Walker in a 1973 essay for Ms. Magazine. This woman is best known for creating the characters of Tea Cake and Janie Crawford. FTP, name this author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
In a short story by this author, the abusive Sykes is killed by a rattlesnake he plants in some washing to kill his wife.
Zora Neale Hurston