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1 online resource (xxxii, 458 pages) : illustrations |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 315 |
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Dictionary of literary biography (Online)
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 315
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Contents |
Plan of the Series -- Works by Langston Hughes -- A Poet of the People: 1902 -- 1929 -- Living with Mary Langston-from Hughes, The Big Sea: An Autobiography -- New Arrangements-from The Big Sea -- Hughes on Central High School-from The Big Sea -- Facsimile: First page of Hughes's short story in the Central High School Monthly -- Living the Blues -- I've Known Rivers-from The Big Sea -- Facsimile: A copy of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to James Nathaniel Hughes Jr., 19 December 1921 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to R.J.M. Danley, 14 May 1922 -- A Letter from Africa-Hughes letter to Carrie Clark, 21 July 1923 -- Remembering a Paris Romance-from Anne Marie Coussey letter to Hughes, 3 June 1926 -- Our Wonderful Society: Washington-Hughes, Opportunity, August 1927 -- An Award-Winning Poem-Hughes, "The Weary Blues" -- A First Book |
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"A Brilliant and Shockingly Accurate Expose": Review of Simple Speaks His Mind-John W. Parker, Journal of Negro History, January 1951 -- That Not So Simple Sage, Mr. Simple: Review of Simple Takes a Wife-Arna Bontemps, New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 14 June 1953 -- Not So Simple: Review of Simple Takes a Wife-Abner Berry, Masses and Mainstream, September 1953 -- Simple is Back-Martha MacGregor, New York Post, 15 September 1957 -- Scenes from Simply Heavenly-from Langston Hughes and David Martin, Simply Heavenly, 1958 -- Poetry and Prose -- "A Sensitive and Fascinating Work": Review of Montage of a Dream Deferred-Arthur P. Davis, Journal of Negro History, April 1951 -- Poetry of Harlem in Transition: Review of Montage of a Dream Deferred-John W. Parker, Phylon, Second Quarter, 1951 -- Professor-from Hughes, Laughing to Keep from Crying, 1952 |
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"Bright Before Us": The Legacy of Langston Hughes -- Views from the Sixties -- The Legacy of Langston Hughes-Ted Poston, New York Post Magazine, 27 May 1967 -- The Man Who Created 'Simple'-Keneth Kinnamon, The Nation, 4 December 1967 -- "A Vital Contribution": Review of The Panther and the Lash-W. Edward Farrison, College Language Association Journal, March 1968 -- Langston Hughes' Last Volume of Verse: Review of The Panther and the Lash-Theodore R. Hudson, College Language Association Journal, June 1968 -- Langston Hughes: He Spoke of Rivers-Arna Bontemps, Freedomways, Spring 1968 -- Langston Hughes-An Inspirer of Young Writers-Lindsay Patterson, Freedomways, Spring 1968 -- Looking Back -- A Chat with Langston Hughes: Spring, 1960-Richard K. Barksdale, Langston Hughes Review, Fall 1983 -- Langston/Blues Griot-Jerry W. Ward Jr., Langston Hughes Review, Fall 1993 |
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"The Simplicity of Great Art": Review of Not Without Laughter-Sterling A. Brown, Opportunity, September 1930 -- Greetings to Soviet Workers-Hughes, New Masses, December 1930 -- The Story of Mule Bone -- A Tragedy of Negro Life-Henry Louis Gates Jr., in Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life -- Facsimile: Title page for the typescript of Mule Bone -- "Flinging a Final Mule Bone"-Hughes letter to Carl Van Vechten, 4 February 1931 -- Facsimile: First page of the Mule Bone typescript -- Haiti and the South -- Hughes letter to Amy Spingarn, 14 May 1931 -- People without Shoes-Hughes, New Masses, October 1931 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to James Nathaniel Hughes Jr., 30 June 1931 -- Reading at Coulter Academy-from Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey -- Financing a Reading Tour-Hughes letter to James Weldon Johnson, 14 August 1931 |
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Amiri Baraka on Langston Hughes-17 October 1985 interview, Langston Hughes Review, Winter 1997 -- James Baldwin on Langston Hughes-14 February 1986 interview, Langston Hughes Review, Winter 1997 -- Langston Hughes and Haiti-Maurice A. Lubin, Langston Hughes Review, Spring 1987 -- Hughes's Literary Reputation in France-Michel Fabre, Langston Hughes Review, Spring 1987 -- Gathering Up Every Word of the Prolific Langston Hughes-Jo Thomas, The New York Times, 31 July 2001 |
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Another Revealing Facet of the Harlem Scene: Review of Tambourines to Glory-John W. Parker, Phylon, Spring 1959 -- Langston Hughes' Tambourines to Glory-LeRoi Jones, Jazz Review, June 1959 -- Facsimile: First page of Hughes's reader's report for Simon and Schuster -- Sermons and Blues: Review of Selected Poems of Langston Hughes-James Baldwin, The New York Times Book Review, 29 March 1959 -- Facsimile: Hughes postcard to Baldwin, 29 March 1959 -- "Enduring Poems": Review of Selected Poems of Langston Hughes-John Henrik Clarke, Chicago Defender, 4 July 1959 -- Manhattan Arts Theatre Citation to Langston Hughes, 3 May 1959 -- Searching for a Star-Hughes letter to Pearl Bailey, 6 December 1959 -- The Last Years: 1960 -- 22 May 1967 -- A-Climbin' On -- Remarks in Acceptance of 45th Spingarn Medal-Hughes, 26 June 1960 -- No Crystal Stair-Hughes, "Mother to Son," The Crisis, December 1922 |
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Books and Things: Review of Laughing to Keep from Crying-Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune, 26 March 1952 -- Facsimile: Draft of a poem Hughes published in Beloit Poetry Journal Chapbook -- Black & Bubbling: Review of Laughing to Keep from Crying-Arna Bontemps, The Saturday Review of Literature, 5 April 1952 -- "The Why and Wherefore": Review of The Sweet Flypaper of Life-Almena Lomax, Los Angeles Tribune, 11 November 1955 -- Hughes' I Wonder as I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet-Jonathan F. Beecher, Harvard Crimson, 13 December 1956 -- "A Personality Without Pretense": Review of I Wonder As I Wander-J. Saunders Redding, Baltimore Afro-American, 12 January 1957 -- Odyssey of a Literary Man: Review of I Wonder As I Wander-Nick Aaron Ford, Phylon, First Quarter, 1957 -- Facsimile: Telegram exchange between bandleader Duke Ellington and Hughes, September 1958 |
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Critic, Translator, and Teacher -- Some Practical Observations: A Colloquy-Hughes interview, Phylon, Winter 1950 -- Facsimile: Edward H. Dodd Jr. letter to Hughes, 25 June 1952 -- The Famous Negro Books-Hughes letter to Dodd, 28 June 1952 -- Introduction to Uncle Tom's Cabin-Hughes, 1952 -- Hughes letter to Arna Bontemps, 18 February 1953 -- Facsimile: Page from a draft of Hughes's Famous American Negroes -- Facsimile: Carl Murphy letter to Hughes, 18 September 1953 -- From Harlem to Paris-Hughes, New York Times Book Review, 26 February 1956 -- Introduction to Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, 1957 -- "Even the Simplicity Defeats Him"-Edwin Honig, "Poet of Womanhood," The Saturday Review of Literature, 22 March 1958 -- Introduction to Pudd'nhead Wilson-Hughes, 1959 -- The Simple Story -- Not So Simple: Review of Simple Speaks His Mind-Lloyd L. Brown, Masses and Mainstream, June 1950 |
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Facsimile: Draft for Hughes's short piece on Miles Davis -- Jazz Is a Marching Jubilee: Review of Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz-Rudi Blesh, New York Herald Tribune Books, 26 November 1961 -- "A Book of Social Protest": Review of Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz-John Henrik Clarke, Freedomways, Winter 1962 -- Foreword: Who Is Simple?-Hughes, The Best of Simple, 1961 -- "A Later Day Aesop": Review of The Best of Simple-Clarke, Freedomways, Winter 1962 -- Foreword to Poems from Black Africa-Hughes, 1963 -- Mr. Hughes' Shadings: Review of Something in Common and Other Stories-William Kirtz, Quincy (Mass.) Patriot-Ledger, 17 April 1963 -- Reachin' Landings -- Introduction to Five Plays by Langston Hughes-Webster Smalley, 1963 -- A Writer's Responsibility-Hughes, "The Task of the Negro Writer as Artist," Negro Digest, April 1965 |
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Facsimile: First page from Hughes's song "Freedom Road," 1942 -- My America-Hughes, in What the Negro Wants, 1944 -- Down Under in Harlem-Hughes, The New Republic, 27 March 1944 -- From Jim Crow's Last Stand to One-Way Ticket -- "Fearlessly Presenting His Case": Review of Jim Crow's Last Stand-Carter G. Woodson, Journal of Negro History, October 1943 -- A Proposal for an Anthology-Hughes letter to Countee Cullen, 23 July 1943 -- Facsimile: Drafts of poem "Trumpet Player: 52nd Street," June 1945 -- Hughes letter to Arna Bontemps, 2 May 1946 -- Facsimile: Pearl S. Buck cable to Hughes, 29 May 1946 -- The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman-Hughes, preface, I Hear the People Singing: Selected Poems of Walt Whitman, 1946 -- Langston Hughes Fulfills Promise of Great Destiny in New Book: Review of Fields of Wonder-Russell and Rowena Jelliffe, Cleveland News Week-End Review, 29 March 1947 |
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Facsimile: First page of an essay Hughes wrote on sexual stereotypes, 4 May 1963 -- "It'll Be Me": The Voice of Langston Hughes: Review of Five Plays by Langston Hughes-Doris E. Abramson, Massachusetts Review, Autumn 1963 -- Continued Controversy-"4 Churches Hit Poet's WSU Visit," The Wichita Eagle, 26 April 1965 -- Still Climbin' -- The Twenties: Harlem and Its Negritude-Hughes, African Forum, 1966 -- "Too Serious to Laugh ... Too Philosophical to Cry": Review of Simple's Uncle Sam-W. Edward Farrison, College Language Association Journal, March 1966 -- Taos in Harlem: An Interview with Langston Hughes-Richard Rive, Contrast, 1967 -- Introduction to The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present-Hughes, 1967 -- Facsimile: Instructions Hughes prepared for his memorial service -- Langston Hughes Dies-The Poet of Harlem-Joseph Mancini, New York Post, 23 May 1967 |
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Hughes letter to Carl Van Vechten, 17 May 1925 -- Facsimile: Blanche Knopf letter to Hughes, 18 May 1925 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Claude McKay, 25 July 1925 -- Facsimile: W.E.B. Du Bois letter to Hughes, 6 August 1925 -- On Being Discovered-from The Big Sea -- Introducing Langston Hughes to the Reader-Van Vechten, preface for The Weary Blues -- Poet on Poet: Review of The Weary Blues-Countee Cullen, Opportunity, February 1926 -- Euterpe Learns the Charleston: Review of The Weary Blues-Theophilus Lewis, The Messenger, March 1926 -- To Midnight Nan at Leroy's-from The Weary Blues -- The Jazz Band's Sob: Review of The Weary Blues-DuBose Heyward, New York Herald Tribune Books, 1 August 1926 -- Off with the Black-Face!: Review of The Weary Blues-James Rorty, New Masses, October 1926 -- An Argument of Art and Race -- The Negro-Art Hokum-George S. Schuyler, The Nation, 16 June 1926 |
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Hughes letter to Thurman, 29 July 1929 -- Facsimile: Page from Hughes's journal, 15 July 1929 -- Turning to the World: 1930 -- 1939 -- Laughin' Just to Keep from Cryin' -- Patron and Friend-from The Big Sea -- Facsimile: Page from the second draft of Not Without Laughter -- "Next Thing to Camelot": Introduction to Not Without Laughter-Arna Bontemps, 1969 -- Guitar-from Hughes, Not Without Laughter -- The Break with Mason-from The Big Sea -- A Little Colored Boy Grows Up: Review of Not Without Laughter-Mary Ross, New York Herald Tribune Books, 27 July 1930 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to James Weldon Johnson, 12 July 1930 -- "An Enviable First Performance": Review of Not Without Laughter-Wallace Thurman, New York Evening Post, 28 July 1930 -- Facsimile: Knopf publicity department letter to Hughes, 28 July 1930 |
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Hughes on Negro Art-Hughes, "Negro Art and-Its Audience" The New Sign, 26 September 1931, and "Negro Art and-Publicity Value," The New Sign, 3 October 1931 -- Sterling A. Brown letter to Hughes, 7 December 1931 -- Hughes letter to Mary McLeod Bethune, 15 February 1932 -- Facsimile: Hughes tribute to Vachel Lindsay, 18 January 1932 -- Brown America in Jail: Kilby-Hughes, Opportunity, June 1932 -- Facsimile: Hughes cable to Wallace Thurman, 12 March 1932 -- Writing for Children -- Sandburg of Negro Verse: Review of The Dream Keeper-Horace Gregory, New York Evening Post, 2 August 1932 -- By the Sea-from Hughes and Arna Bontemps, Popo and Fifina, 1932 -- Books and the Negro Child-Hughes, Children's Library Yearbook, 1932 -- The Soviet Union and Asia -- Hughes letter to Amy Spingarn, 20 March 1933 -- Facsimile: Press release, 31 August 1932 -- Moscow and Me-Hughes, International Literature, July 1933 |
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My Adventures as a Social Poet-Hughes, Phylon, Third Quarter 1947 -- Facsimile: "Freedom Train," in the October 1947 issue of Our World -- Facsimile: Draft of part of Montage of a Dream Deferred, 7 August 1948 -- Old Forms, Old Rhythms, Old Words: Review of One-Way Ticket-J. Saunders Redding, The Saturday Review of Literature, 22 January 1949 -- 'One Way Ticket, ' New Book of Poems by Langston Hughes-Abner W. Berry, Daily Worker, 13 February 1949 -- Facsimile: Knopf announcement of publication of One-Way Ticket -- A Citizen of Harlem: 1950 -- 1959 -- The McCarthy Hearings and Right-Wing Critics -- Testimony before the Executive Session, 24 March 1953-record of the Eighty-Third Congress, First Session, 1953 -- Am I Excused Now?-record of the Eighty-Third Congress, First Session, 26 March 1953 -- Langston Hughes: Malevolent Force-Elizabeth Staples, American Mercury, January 1959 |
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Settling Matters in Mexico-Hughes letter to Carrie Clark, 14 December 1934 -- Soul Gone Home: A One-Act Play-Hughes, One-Act Play, July 1937 -- Facsimile: Page from draft of speech for the Second International Writers Congress, 16 July 1937 -- Hughes Bombed in Spain-Hughes, Baltimore Afro-American, 23 October 1937 -- Facsimile: Pages with Hughes annotations from One Act Play, October 1938 -- Writers, Words and the World-speech by Hughes, 25 July 1938 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Dorothy Peterson, 25 July 1939 -- Adventures as a Social Writer: 1940 -- 1949 -- Facsimile: Hughes's application to the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 5 January 1941 -- Ellison and Wright on The Big Sea -- Stormy Weather-Ralph Ellison, The New Masses, 24 September 1940 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Richard Wright, 29 February 1940 -- Forerunner and Ambassador-Wright, The New Republic, 28 October 1940 |
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Swords over Asia-Hughes, Fight against War and Fascism, June 1934 -- Facsimile: Hughes speech in Japan, 30 June 1933 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Jean Toomer, 17 November 1933, and Toomer's reply -- A First Collection of Stories -- Red-Headed Baby-from Hughes, The Ways of White Folks -- Langston Hughes Produces a Remarkably Fine Book of Short Stories: Review of The Ways of White Folks-Herschel Brickell, New York Post, 28 June 1934 -- Change the World!: Review of The Ways of White Folks-Edwin Rolfe, Daily Worker, 10 July 1934 -- Jazz-Consciousness: Review of The Ways of White Folks-Vernon Loggins, The Saturday Review of Literature, 14 July 1934 -- The Uses of Words -- To Negro Writers-essay by Hughes, American Writers' Congress, April 1935 -- An Appeal for Jacques Roumain-Hughes, letter to the editor, The New Republic, 12 December 1934 |
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain-Hughes, The Nation, 23 June 1926 -- An Absurd Contention-Hughes, letter to the editor, The Nation, 18 August 1926 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Wallace Thurman, circa 1926 -- Reviews of Fine Clothes to the Jew -- Songs of the Lowly-Dewey R. Jones, Chicago Defender, 5 February 1927 -- The Growth of a Poet-Walter F. White, New York World, 6 February 1927 -- Langston Hughes: The Sewer Dweller-William M. Kelley, New York Amsterdam News, 9 February 1927 -- A Poet for the People-Margaret Larkin, Opportunity, March 1927 -- On Critics -- These Bad New Negroes: A Critique on Critics-essay by Hughes, 22 March 1927 -- Only the Best-Hughes letter to W.E.B. Du Bois, 11 February 1928 -- A Man of Letters -- Hughes letter to Claude McKay, 5 March 1928 -- Hughes letter to McKay, 13 September 1928 -- Hughes letter to Wallace Thurman, circa 1929 |
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Wright Wins the Spingarn Medal-Hughes letter to Wright, 15 February 1941 -- The "Goodbye Christ" Controversy -- Concerning "Goodbye, Christ"-Hughes statement, 1 January 1941 -- Hughes letter to Malcolm Cowley, 2 January 1941 -- The Third Collection of Poems -- To Croon, Shout, Recite or Sing: Review of Shakespeare in Harlem-Ruth Lechlitner, New York Herald Tribune Books, 3 May 1942 -- "Unworthy of the Author": Review of Shakespeare in Harlem-Owen Dodson, Phylon, Third Quarter 1942 -- Writing for the Chicago Defender -- Negro Writers and the War-Hughes draft of article for the Chicago Defender, 24 August 1942 -- Facsimile: Slogans for war bonds, circa 1942 -- Why and Wherefore-Hughes, Chicago Defender, 21 November 1942 -- Conversation at Midnight-Hughes, Chicago Defender, 13 February 1943 -- On America's Democracy -- Democracy, Negroes, and Writers-Hughes statement, 13 May 1941 |
Summary |
Information provided on Langston Hughes, one of the most influential, prolific and popular writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that generated an unprecedented amount of African American art, literature and music. During his nearly five decades as a writer, Hughes gained international acclaim in nearly every genre of writing, including poetry, drama, the short story, the novel, history, prose, children's literature and song lyrics |
Notes |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
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SUBJECT |
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00049863 |
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African American poets -- Biography.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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African American poets.
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American Literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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Poets, American.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
De Santis, Christopher C., 1966-
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Gale Research Inc
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LC no. |
2005005553 |
ISBN |
0787681334 |
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9780787681333 |
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