| Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir Contributor(s): Hurston, Zora Neale (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062004832 ISBN-13: 9780062004833 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 930 |
| Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.69" W x 8.26" (0.70 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Contributor Bio(s): Hurston, Zora Neale: - Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph: "Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South."
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