Dust tracks on a road

Book

Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou.

Summary:

First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography, an 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. Hurston's personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life -- public and private -- of an artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America. --From publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 0060854081
ISBN: 9780060854089
Physical Description: xii, 308, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "Originally published in 1942 by J.B. Lippincott, Inc. The restored text was published in 1995 by The Library of America as part of Folklore, memoirs & other writings"--Title page verso.

"First HarperPerennial edition published 1996"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302).
Formatted Contents Note:: My birthplace -- My folks -- I get born -- Inside search -- Figure and fancy -- Wandering -- Jacksonville and after -- Back stage and the railroad -- School again -- Research -- Books and things -- My people! My people! -- Two women in particular -- Love -- Religion -- Looking things over -- Appendix: "My people, my people!" -- Seeing the world as it is -- Inside light--being a salute to friendship -- Concert -- Afterword -- Selected bibliography -- Chronology.