{"product_id":"dust-tracks-on-a-road-an-autobiography-zora-neale-hurston","title":"Dust Tracks On a Road: An Autobiography;  Zora Neale Hurston","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDust Tracks on a Road\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's most compelling and influential authors. Hurston's powerful novels of the South--including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJonah's Gourd Vine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand, most famously,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/em\u003e--continue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality. First published in 1942,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDust Tracks on a Road\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis Hurston's personal story, told in her own words.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 1, 1942\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNovels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/37415.Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God\" title=\"Their Eyes Were Watching God\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eZora Neale Hurston\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e give detailed accounts of African American life in the South.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFire!!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e alongside \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/36910.Langston_Hughes\" title=\"Langston Hughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eLangston Hughes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/122446.Wallace_Thurman\" title=\"Wallace Thurman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eWallace Thurman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shortly before she entered Barnard College. This literary movement developed into the Harlem renaissance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/584512.Mules_and_Men\" title=\"Mules and Men\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eMules and Men\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealongside fiction \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/37415.Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God\" title=\"Their Eyes Were Watching God\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She also assembled a folk-based performance dance group that recreated her Southern tableau with one performance on Broadway.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeople awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to Hurston to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her significant work ably broke into the secret societies and exposed their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer-anthropologist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/160752.Katherine_Dunham\" title=\"Katherine Dunham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eKatherine Dunham\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, then at the University of Chicago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1954, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Courier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e assigned Hurston, unable to sell her fiction, to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor. Hurston also contributed to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search\/search?q=Woman%20in%20the%20Suwanee%20County%20Jail\" title=\"Woman in the Suwanee County Jail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eWoman in the Suwanee County Jail\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/46929.William_Bradford_Huie\" title=\"William Bradford Huie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eWilliam Bradford Huie\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49495229497666,"sku":"","price":6.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/dusttracks.jpg?v=1722457343","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/dust-tracks-on-a-road-an-autobiography-zora-neale-hurston","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}