Dust Tracks on Road by Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on Road by Zora Neale Hurston

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 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.

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist whose fictional and factual depictions of African-American history are unrivaled. Her writings include Barracoon, a New York Times bestseller, as well as her most famous work, the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.