Dust Tracks on a Road is the 1942 autobiography of black American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of the best writing of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most significant twentieth-century American writers, in one authoritative set.“Folklore is the arts of the people,” Hurston wrote, “before they find out that there is any …
"Through Hurston, the soul of the black South gained one of its most articulate interpreters." —New York Times During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston was praised for her writing but condemned for her independence and audacity. Her work fell into obscurity until the 1970s, when Alice Walker rediscovered Hurston's …