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Tambourines to Glory by Langston Hughes

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Name: Langston Hughes
Birth Date: February 1, 1902
Death Date: May 22, 1967
Place of Birth: Joplin, Missouri, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, playwright

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Biography of (James) Langston Hughes
1169 words, approx. 3.9 pages
France held a special value for Langston Hughes even before he first visited Paris. "I will never forget the thrill of first understanding the French of de Maupassant," he writes in The Big Sea (1940). "I think it was de Maupassant who made me really wan...
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Biography of Langston Hughes
976 words, approx. 3.3 pages
American author Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a moving spirit in the artistic ferment of the 1920s often called the Harlem Renaissance, expressed the mind and spirit of most African Americans for nearly half a century. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin,...
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Biography of Langston Hughes
10169 words, approx. 33.9 pages
As a household name for so many readers of varying persuasions, Langston Hughes was perhaps the most significant black American writer in the twentieth century. From the Harlem Renaissance of the early twenties, to the Black Arts reorientations of the si...
 


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Tambourines to Glory Information
167 words, approx. 1 pages
Tambourines to Glory is a 1956 black gospel musical play by Langston Hughes. It tells the story of two female street preachers who open a store front church in Harlem. Hughes later turned the play into a novel in 1958. The musical was generally...


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The Virginia Quarterly Review
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 8: The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory
04/01/2002: 253 words, approx. 1 pages
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 8: The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory, edited by Dolan Hubbard. This fourth of a projected 18 volumes of the collected poems, plays, fiction, and nonfiction works of one of America's most talented...
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Evening Standard - London
Just hand me the tambourine
03/05/1999: 683 words, approx. 2 pages
Two years of practising in a London dance studio couldn't prepare JEANNETTE HYDE for the cartwheeling rigours of a session with the masters of capoeira in Brazil MY FIRST brush with the Brazilian fighting dance of capoeira was life-threatening. Five years ago in Salvador,...


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