There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Creative impulse Stories Writing

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Dust Tracks on a Road

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

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United States

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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