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Langston Hughes (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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A prominent African American writer, Langston Hughes led an active literary life. His writings extend from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960’s. Hughes’s father abandoned his wife and infant son in 1903 to seek wealth in Mexico. His mother, unable to find menial labor in Joplin, moved frequently to look for work. In his youth, Hughes lived predominantly with his maternal grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. Hughes understood poverty, dejection, and loneliness, but from his grandmother he learned the valuable lessons of...
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Autobiographies of Langston Hughes (Identities and Issues) -
Ballad of the Landlord (Poetry) -
Big Sea, The/I Wonder as I Wander (African American Literature) -
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Big Sea, The (Nonfiction) -
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, The (Magill Book Reviews) -
Dream Variations (Poetry) -
Famous American Negroes (Juvenile Literature) -
Gospel Singers (Short Stories) -
Harlem (Poetry) -
I Wonder as I Wander (Juvenile Literature) -
Mulatto (Poetry) -
Negro Speaks of Rivers, The (Poetry) -
Not Without Laughter (American Fiction) -
Not Without Laughter (Character Profiles) -
On the Road (Short Stories) -
Poetry of Hughes, The (African American Literature) -
Return of Simple, The (Magill Book Reviews) -
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Identities and Issues) -
Stories of Hughes, The (African American Literature) -
Thank You, M’am (Short Stories) -
Trumpet Player (Poetry) -
Ways of White Folks, The (Identities and Issues) -
Weary Blues, The (Masterplots Classics) -
Weary Blues, The (Poetry) -
African American Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
African American Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
