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Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou.
LIBRA - Special PS3515.U789 Z465 1996
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Van Pelt Library PS3515.U789 Z465 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hurston, Zora Neale.
- African American women novelists--20th century--Biography.
- African American women novelists.
- Women folklorists--United States--Biography.
- Women folklorists.
- African Americans--Southern States--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Southern States.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperPerennial edition.
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on cover: Autobiography
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1996.
- Summary:
- An exuberant account of Zora Neale Hurston's rise from poverty in the rural south to a prominent place among the leading artists and intelectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Contents:
- My birthplace
- My folks
- I get born
- The inside search
- Figure and fancy
- Wandering
- Jacksonville and after
- Back stage and the railroad
- School again
- Research
- Books and things
- My people! My people!
- Two women in particular
- Love
- Religion
- Looking things over. Appendix: "My people, my people!
- Seeing the world as it is
- The inside light
- being a salute to friendship
- Concert.
- Notes:
- "The restored text established by the Library of America."
- "This book was originally published in 1942 by J.B. Lippincott, Inc. The restored text was published in 1995 by the Library of America as part of Folklore, memoirs & other writings"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302).
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1943
- ISBN:
- 0060921684
- 9780060921682
- OCLC:
- 34946730
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