The Life of Langston Hughes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Arnold Rampersad
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1941-1967
- Setting: Harlem, California, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean
- Principal Characters: Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Toy Harper, Emerson Harper, Noël Sullivan, Carl Van Vechten
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Communism or communists, Politics, Blacks, France or French people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem, Liberalism
- Locales: Africa, Caribbean, California, Harlem, NY, Europe
In the first volume of his biography of Langston Hughes, (subtitled I, Too, Sing America, 1986), Arnold Rampersad traced Hughes's boyhood roots in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio, through his early career in the 1920's (as a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, along with other black writers such as Claude McKay and Countee Cullen), into the 1930's and his travels to the Soviet Union and his work as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War.
Volume 2 picks up this story in a crucial year, 1941. Hughes had been writing and publishing for twenty years, but at thirty-nine he...
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