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Zora Neale Hurston
(1891-1960)

Zora Neale Hurston is now seen as a pioneering African American folklorist, anthropologist, and novelist, but her writing went largely unrecognized in the years after her death.

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
Dust Tracks on the Road
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott: ca. 1942

Hurston's autobiography, Dust Tracks On a Road, is representative of women’s attempts to exert authority to tell their own stories and to have those stories taken seriously. The members of the Women’s Study Club who wrote their names on the flyleaf of this copy suggest a community of female readers practicing literary criticism on their own terms.

AC9.H9465.942d. Frederick F. Kumm fund, 2001.

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