Tambourines to Glory | Author Biography
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His unusual middle name had been the birth name of his mother, a teacher. His father was a lawyer and businessman. Hughes grew up mainly in Lawrence, Kansas, a lonely child drawn to reading and writing. His first poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” was published in the June 1921 issue of the magazine Crisis, edited by the sociologist and political leader W. E. B. DuBois. It became one of Hughes’s best-known and most anthologized poems.
After a year at Columbia University in New York, Hughes took simple...
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