She furthers her thoughts by stating that the romance and sexuality seen in the movie are topics that compares to the romance and sexuality described in Hurston's novel.

Perhaps the strongest inspiration for Hurston's writing of Their Eyes Were Watching God was her former lover Percival Punter.

One of Nugent's stories, submitted for publication, was destroyed accidentally whilst stored at Hurston's apartment, and he had to rewrite it.

In Huie's book, Hurston's notes on the first trial — at which Huie was not present — include the fact that the jury was made up entirely of white men.

The effects of the hurricane on black migrant workers is dramatized in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

According to his biographer, Robert Coram, Boyd was also known at different points of his career as " The Mad Major " for the intensity of his passions, as " Genghis John " for his confrontational style of interpersonal discussion, and as the " Ghetto Colonel " for his spartan lifestyle.

According to biographer Boyd Schlenther, Thomson " took a direct role in the conduct of foreign affairs.

Furthermore, the conductor Boyd Neel was ill for one of the three sessions, and Finzi had to take over: his biographer, Diana McVeagh, suggests it may have been for the " Rhapsody ", which was recorded on a particularly cold day-the coldest day in 50 years-and Joan Cross admitted afterwards, " I don't think I did justice to that piece, alas!

James III's biographer sums Boyd up as an unscrupulous political gambler and an inveterate optimist.

A biographer of Emerson described the group as " the occasional meetings of a changing body of liberal thinkers, agreeing in nothing but their liberality ".

As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.

In the ensuing conversation with Harty, as described by biographer David Buckley, " the singer made hardly any sense at all throughout what was quite an extensive interview.

" As described by biographer Christopher Sandford, " The record dashed such high hopes with dubious choices, and production that spelt the end — for fifteen years — of Bowie's partnership with Eno.

" Modern Love " and " China Girl " made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, " were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

Although he spoke with apprehension at his award speech about the danger which the authority of the prize would lend to an economist, the prize brought much greater public awareness of Hayek and has been described by his biographer as " the great rejuvenating event in his life ".

Douglas biographer Robert W. Johanssen described part of the speech:

Eugene is described by his biographer as simple and humble, learned and eloquent, handsome and generous, a lover of peace, and wholly occupied with the thought of doing what was pleasing to God.

His close associate, friend and biographer, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, described Roosevelt's assault on the spoils system:

The reaction to this production was extreme: Ernest Newman, Wagner's biographer described it as " not only the best Parsifal I have ever seen and heard, but one of the three or four most moving spiritual experiences of my life ".

Powell's biographer, Simon Heffer, described the defeat of Lords reform as " perhaps the greatest triumph of Powell's political career ".

Brought out by Gallimard, it had been written in under two months, and would be described by Foucault biographer David Macey as " a very personal book " that resulted from a " love affair " with Roussel's work.

Foucault's first biographer, Didier Eribon, described the philosopher as " a complex, many-sided character ", and that " under one mask there is always another ".

" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".

Blunden's love of cricket, celebrated in his book Cricket Country, is described by the biographer Philip Ziegler as fanatical.

Her first biographer, a Jesuit named Engelbert Keilert, described her as smart, well-versed, and able to read and write and correspond with church officials.

Addams was " sociable and debonair ," and described by a biographer as " A well-dressed, courtly man with silvery back-combed hair and a gentle manner, he bore no resemblance to a fiend.

' Author B ', the biographer and former apprentice of St Dunstan, described with vivid memory how the king sucked out the juices of his food, chewed on what was left and spat it out.

As his biographer, R. A. Gilbert described him, " Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism — viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion.

Vernoy de Saint-Georges after Sir Walter Scott, is described by Bizet's biographer Winton Dean as " the worst Bizet was ever called upon to set ".

By 1556 — fewer than sixty years after it was finished — Leonardo's biographer Giorgio Vasari described the painting as already " ruined " and so deteriorated that the figures were unrecognizable.

Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher – described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson, as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man " – was damning in his review, saying that From Russia, with Love was Fleming's " longest and poorest book ".

The 13th-century Moroccan biographer Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili and Qadi Ayyad before him in the 12th-century, note that Waggag's learning center was called Dar al-Murabitin ( The house of the Almoravids ), and that might have inspired Ibn Yasin's choice of name for the movement.

Although Jefferson wrote that Congress had " mangled " his draft version, the Declaration that was finally produced, according to his biographer John Ferling, was " the majestic document that inspired both contemporaries and posterity.

The worldwide homosexual emancipation movement also began in Germany in the late 19th century, and many of the thinkers whose work inspired sexual liberation in the 20th century were also from the German-speaking world, such as Sigmund Freud, Otto Gross, Herbert Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich, and Max Stirner's follower and biographer, John Henry MacKay.

The shrieking fits that followed are believed by biographer Dennis Perrin to be inspired by O ' Donoghue's real-life agonies from chronic migraine headaches.

His biographer, Alexandra Laederich, writes, " His music can be festive and gay … lyrical and inspired, or descriptive and evocative … often tinged with gentle humour … ll the elements of his musical language bar that of harmony relate closely to the Classical tradition.

According to Brennan's biographer, Norman Tomlinson, Brennan was inspired to create his torpedo's unique propulsion system in 1874, when he noticed that a cotton reel, if the thread is pulled toward the operator from underneath, moves forward rather than backward.

Aldous Huxley biographer Sybille Bedford claims in her fictive memoir Jigsaw that the novel's characters Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter, were partly inspired by her own experiences with her morphine-addicted mother and herself, known to Huxley because they were neighbours in the south of France.

Goldman's biographer Alice Wexler suggests that Most's criticisms may have been inspired by jealousy of Berkman.

Hopper's biographer, Gail Levin, speculates that Hopper may have been inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's " sinister Night Café ", which was showing at a gallery in New York in January 1942.