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A Short Biography of Langston Hughes

Author Name:

Langston Hughes

Born As:

James Mercer Langston Hughes

Other Names:

James Mercer Langston Hughes

Born:

1 Feb 1902

Died:

22 May 1967




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Poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

The Weary Blues - Knopf - 1926
Fine Clothes to the Jew - Knopf - 1927
The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations - 1931
Dear Lovely Death - 1931
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems - Knopf - 1932
Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play - 1932
Shakespeare in Harlem - Knopf -  1942
Freedom's Plow - 1943
Fields of Wonder - Knopf -1947
One-Way Ticket - 1949
Montage of a Dream Deferred - Holt - 1951
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes - 1958
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz - Hill & Wang - 1961
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times - 1967
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes - Knopf - 1994
Let America Be America Again - 2005

Major Plays:

Don't You Want to Be Free? - 1938 - by Langston Hughes was performed for his Harlem Suitcase Theatre in Harlem
Mule Bone - with Zora Neale Hurston - 1931
Mulatto - 1935 - renamed The Barrier - an opera - in 1950 -
Troubled Island - with William Grant Still - 1936
Little Ham - 1936
Emperor of Haiti - 1936
Don't You Want to be Free? 1938
Street Scene - contributed lyrics - 1947
Tambourines to glory - 1956
Simply Heavenly - 1957
Black Nativity - 1961
Five Plays by Langston Hughes - Bloomington: Indiana University Press - 1963 -
Jericho-Jim Crow - 1964.                          
Mother  Carrie Langston Hughes
Father James Nathaniel Hughes