Dust Tracks on a Road

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Published January 3rd 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published 1942)

Category: Biography

Pages: 324 pages

ISBN: 9780060854089

Description:
"Told in gutsy language...her story is an encouraging and enjoyable one for any member of the human race." Ñ N.Y. Review of Books.

First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston's very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the lifeÐpublic and privateÐof an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America. Full of the wit and wisdom of a proud, spirited woman who started off low and climbed hight, Dust Tracks on a Road is a rare treasure from one of literature's most cherished voices.