Dust Tracks on a Road/an Autobiography

Zora Neale Hurston

ISBN 10: 0606046593 ISBN 13: 9780606046596

Publisher: Demco Media, 1991

Synopsis

Critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her impoverished childhood, her successful career as an anthropologist, and her early attempts at writing

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First published in 1942 at the heightof her popularity, Dust Tracks ona Road is Zora Neale Hurston’scandid, funny, bold, andpoignant autobiography, animaginative and exuberantaccount of her rise from childhood povertyin the rural South to a prominent placeamong the leading artists and intellectualsof the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling asher acclaimed fiction, Hurston’s very personalliterary self-portrait offers a revealing, oftenaudacious glimpse into the life—publicand private—of an extraordinary artist,anthropologist, chronicler, and champion ofthe Black experience in America. Full of thewit and wisdom of a proud, spirited womanwho started off low and climbed high, DustTracks on a Road is a rare treasure from oneof literature’s most cherished voices.

About the Author

Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, was deemed "one of the greatest writers of our time" by Toni Morrison. With the publication of Lies and Other Tall Tales, The Skull Talks Back, and What's the Hurry, Fox? new generations will be introduced to Hurston's legacy. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, in 1891, and died in 1960.

About this edition

• Publisher: Demco Media
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0606046593
• ISBN 13: 9780606046596
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308