Available Works or Citations from Langston Hughes
Poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, lyricist, and author of juvenile books, Langston Hughes was one of the most prolific African-American writers of the 20th century. Born in Joplin, Missouri, Hughes came to New York in the 1920s and joined other writers and artists in creating what would become known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Langston Hughes Collection: Additions consists…
The Langston Hughes papers consist of a range of items chiefly pertinent to his career as a poet and playwright. Langston Hughes was born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri to Caroline Leary Hughes. From 1903 to 1915 Hughes lived in Lawerence, Kansas with his grandmother Mary Langston. In 1915 he joined his mother in Illinois. The family then moved to…
Langston Hughes, poet, columnist, and novelist. The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life the well-known African-American poet.
Hughes apologizes for the late translation of “Urrutia” and explains that he has been “terribly busy with a play” that he has written and my produce in Cleveland.