• Dust Tracks on a Road

Dust Tracks on a Road

A Harper Perennial Deluxe Modern Classic

The bold, funny, and poignant autobiography from one of American literature’s greats, now beautifully packaged as a Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition

“Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New Yorker

“I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and a sword in my hands.”—Zora Neale Hurston


First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.

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