Dust Tracks On A Road

First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurstons 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 Hurstons very personal literary selfportrait 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 literatures most cherished voices.