The book won the 1942 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, sponsored by Saturday Review magazine, for its contribution to race relations. Maybe some of the details of my birth as told me might be a little inaccurate, but it is pretty well established that I really did get born.” Hurston, who regularly took ten years off her age, had reason to practice this deception, but Dust Tracks is less than forthcoming about many facts of her life. Only in the third chapter does Hurston begin the story of her own life, and she introduces it with a warning: “This is all hear-say. From the beginning it defies readers’ expectations of autobiography. Its factual information is often unreliable, its politics are contradictory, and it barely discusses Hurston's literary career, which is ostensibly the reason she wrote it. Zora Neale Hurston's 1942 memoir is a book she did not want to write, and many of her admirers have wished she had not written it.
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