Dust Tracks on a Road - An Autobiography

About the author

Zora Neale Hurston wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountains; and Seraph on the Suwanee) and was still working on her fifth novel, The Life of Herod the Great, when she died; three books of folklore (Mules and Men and the posthumously published Go Gator and Muddy the Water and Every Tongue Got to Confess); a work of anthropological research (Tell My Horse); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road); an international bestselling ethnographic work (Barracoon); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, and lived her last years in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Summary

From Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most important African American writers of the twentieth century, comes her riveting autobiography—now available in a limited Olive Edition.
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 childhood in the rural South and her rise 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 life—public and private—of 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 high, Dust Tracks on a Road is a rare treasure from one of literature’s most cherished voices.
“Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New Yorker

Product details

• Authors: Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Huston
• Publisher: Amistad
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780062695796
• ISBN: 978-0-06-269579-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 181 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Olive Editions; Olive Editions; Harper Perennial Olive Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: MEMOIR AMERICAN VOICES, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, WOMEN'S STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIO, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: AUTOBIOGRAPHY & BIO, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: CLASSIC LITERATURE, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: WOMEN'S STUDIES, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / African American & Black