Langston Hughes (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Milton Meltzer
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1902–1967
- Setting: Missouri, Kansas, Chicago, Ohio, rural Mexico, Mexico City, Paris, Madrid, New York City, and the Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Langston Hughes, Carrie Langston Hughes, Mary Leary Langston, James Nathaniel Hughes, Auntie, Alain Locke, Arna Bontemps, Russell, Amy Spingarn, Charlotte Mason
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Family or family life, Blacks, Authors or writers, Literature, Education or educators, Harlem Renaissance, Poetry or poets
- Locales: New York, NY, Ohio, Soviet Union, Paris, France, Chicago, IL, Kansas, Mexico City, Mexico, Madrid, Spain, Missouri
Form and Content
Milton Meltzer, who had collaborated with Hughes on two historical surveys, writes Langston Hughes: A Biography as a friend and admirer of this literary figure. He presents a simplified narrative of Hughes’s life in order to make the writer a model for young people, especially African-American youths, who are interested in poetry and literature of all types. This point of view is in keeping with Hughes’s insistence upon being viewed as an African-American writer, rather than as a color-blind writer.
Meltzer remains true to the writer’s...
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