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1) The big sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1940,1993
Description
Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction...
10) Langston Hughes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the poet who spent his career writing about the experiences of African Americans, interspersed with examples of his work.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston went on to become a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston pioneered Jazz Poetry and published nearly twenty...