Born February 1, 1902 Joplin, Missouri Died May 22, 1967 New York, New York American poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and nonfiction...

4langston Hughes Excerpt from Modern American Poetry. Available online at http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/ g_l/hughes/hughes.htm. Accessed on June 20,...

With his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (1926), writer Langston Hughes helped to define the spirit that motivated the Harlem Renaissance, a black cultural movement of the 1920s. In the essay, he argues against blacks...

Founded in 1981, the Langston Hughes Society (LHS) was the first scholarly association named in honor of an African American writer. The LHS is a national association of scholars, teachers, creative and performing artists, students, and lay persons who...

(born Feb. 1, 1902, Joplin, Missouri, U.S.—died May 22, 1967, New York, New York) black poet and writer who became, through numerous translations, one of the foremost interpreters to the world of the black experience in the United States....

(born Feb. 1, 1902, Joplin, Mo., U.S.—died May 22, 1967, New York, N.Y.) U.S. poet and writer. He published the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” when he was 19, briefly attended Columbia University, and worked on an Africa-bound...

Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is known best for his work during the Harlem...