Langston Hughes

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Gender	Male
Death	57 years ago
Date of birth	February 1,1901
Zodiac sign	Aquarius
Born	Joplin
	Missouri
	United States
Date of died	May 22,1967
Died	Stuyvesant Polyclinic
Job	Poet
	Author
	Actor
	Playwright
	Columnist
	Novelist
	Lyricist
	Social activist
	Essayist
Education	Columbia University
	Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
	Lincoln University
Movies/Shows	Black Nativity
	Classical Baby: I'm Grown Up Now: The Poetry Show
	Looking for Langston
	The Pocketbook
	The Strollin' Twenties
	Way Down South
Awards	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
	Spingarn Medal
	Quill Award for Poetry
	Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Periods	1926–1964
Parents	Carrie Langston Hughes
	James Nathaniel Hughes
Poems	Harlem
	Mother to Son
	I, Too
	The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Relat	John Mercer Langston
Influencee	James Weldon Johnson
	Nina Simone
	Gil Scott-Heron
Nationality	American
Grandparents	Charles Henry Langston
Date of Reg.	2019-02-10 00:00:19
Date of Upd.	2023-08-17 16:53:32
ID	403669

I, Too
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Not Without Laughter
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
The big sea
I, Too, Am America
The collected poems of Langston Hughes
The Ways of White Folks
Selected poems of Langston Hughes
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
The panther & the lash
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
The first book of jazz
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
Simple speaks his mind
Best of Simple
The Langston Hughes reader
Remember me to Harlem
Fine Clothes to the Jew
Vintage Hughes
Laughing to Keep from Crying
The return of Simple
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol. 1: The Poems: 1921-1940
Black Misery
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book
Good morning revolution
Simple takes a wife
Lullaby (for a Black Mother): A Poem
The First Book of Rhythms
The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
Simple Stakes a Claim
The Poetry of Langston Hughes
Don't You Turn Back
Simple's Uncle Sam
Fight for freedom
Something in common, and other stories
The first book of Africa
Famous American Negroes
Thank You, M'am
Come to the Waldorf Astoria
Dream Boogie
Simple Stories
Father and Son
Jim Crow's last stand
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz
Langston Hughes Reads
Langston Hughes
Blues
Mother to Son/Harlem Night Song Class Set
Poems
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Weary Blues
Let America be America Again

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Langston Hughes Life story

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

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