Cover of Hurston:Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings.

ID: 5203 ~ Source: Hurston, Zora Neale. Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings. Edited by Cheryl A Wall. The Library of America, 75. New York: Library of America, 1995.

This file appears in: Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

Cover of Hurston:Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings.

This file appears in: Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.

By Ann Cobb & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

On August 6, 1928, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a letter from 7 Bellville Court, Algiers, Louisiana, to Langston Hughes in which she writes "I have landed in the kingdom of Marie Laveau and expect to wear her crown someday” (Kaplan, 124). In Algiers,…