Dec 20, 2009

Dust Tracks on a Road | Dust Tracks on a Road

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston
First Published: 1942
Type of Work: Autobiography
Time of Work: The late nineteenth century to 1940
Setting: Florida, New York, and California
Principal Characters: Zora Neale Hurston, John Hurston, Lucy Potts Hurston, Albert W. Price III
Genres: Criticism
Subjects: African Americans
Locales: New York, NY

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Zora Neale Hurston’s life has been surrounded by questions and controversy. Although Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurston’s official autobiography, many of these questions, especially about her adult life, are not answered in this work. While parts of Hurston’s personality and life will always remain elusive, she has selected certain experiences and images that appear repeatedly in her novels and nonfictional works, most notably in her anthropological work Mules and Men (1935) and in her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God...

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Dust Tracks on a Road | Dust Tracks on a Road

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