01/02/2020
Langston Hughes
(February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)
Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays.
In 'I Wonder as I Wander', Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.
'The collected poems of Langston Hughes' has all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them. This magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America
'The Ways of White Folks' is one of Langston's best-known works. In it, he shares acrid and poignant stories of blacks colliding--sometimes humorously, but often tragically--with whites throughout the 1920s and 1930s.