1902-1967

Describes some of the boyhood experiences that influenced the development of the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

Examines the life of 20th-century African-American poet, Langston Hughes.

These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechtenolder, established, and whitewas at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendshipand for nearly four decades the two men wrote to each other expressively and constantly. They discussed literature and publishing. They gossiped about the people they knew in commonJames Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken. They wrote from near (of racism in Scottsboro) and far (of dancing in Cuba and trekking across the Soviet Union), and always with playfulness and mutual affection..

Presents four political dramas by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, and includes an introduction, as well as an analysis of each included play.

An autobiography in which African-American poet Langston Hughes recounts his years in Harlem and Paris during the 1920s.

An illustrated biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.