Langston Hughes
(1902-1967)
Writer, editor, lecturer
Langston Hughes achieved fame as a poet during the burgeoning of the arts known as the Harlem Renaissance, but those who label him "a Harlem Renaissance poet" have restricted his fame to only one genre and decade. In addition to his work as a poet, Hughes was a novelist, columnist, playwright, and essayist, and though he is most closely associated with Harlem, his world travels influenced his writing in a profound way. Langston Hughes followed the example of Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of his early poetic influences, to become the second African American to earn a living as a writer. His long and distinguished career produced volumes of diverse genres and inspired the work of countless other African American writers.
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Poems
18 editions - first published in 1959 Borrow -
Not without laughter
17 editions - first published in 1930 Borrow -
I wonder as I wander: an autobiographical journey
11 editions - first published in 1956 Read -
The dream keeper and other poems
8 editions - first published in 1932 -
The weary blues
7 editions - first published in 1926 -
The panther & the lash: poems of our times.
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The Langston Hughes reader
6 editions - first published in 1958 -
A pictorial history of the Negro in America
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The first book of jazz
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Simple speaks his mind
5 editions - first published in 1950 -
Five plays: Edited with an introd. by Webster Smalley.
5 editions - first published in 1963 Borrow -
The Book of Negro Humor
4 editions - first published in 1958 -
New Negro Poets U. S. A
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Selected poems: Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.
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Laughing to keep from crying
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The Dream Keeper: and other poems
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Black misery
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The Negro mother, and other dramatic recitations
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Simple takes a wife
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Ask your mama: 12 moods for jazz
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Famous American Negroes
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Fields of wonder: [a book of lyric poems]
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The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970: an anthology
3 editions - first published in 1970 -
The sweet and sour animal book
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Jim Crow's last stand: Race And Culture Series No. Two (Race and Culture Series)
3 editions - first published in 1943 -
Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem
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Good Morning, Revolution: uncollected social protest writings.
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Poems from Black Africa: Ethiopia, South Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya, Gabon, Senegal, Nyasaland, Mozambique, South Africa, Congo, Ghana, Liberia
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Famous Negro heroes of America
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The book of Negro folklore
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Jazz: A First Book (First Books)
3 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
Remember Me to Harlem
3 editions - first published in 2001 -
Langston Hughes Reads: One Way Ticket, the Negro Speaks of Rivers, the Klu Klux Klan and Other of His Poems/Audio Cassette
2 editions - first published in 1992 -
Autobiography
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Simple Stakes a Claim
2 editions - first published in 1957 -
The Book of Rhythms
2 editions - first published in 1995 -
The collected works of Langston Hughes
2 editions - first published in 2001 -
The Negro mother: And Other Dramatic Recitations
2 editions - first published in 1931 -
Langston Hughes in the Hispanic world and Haiti
2 editions - first published in 1977 -
Don't you turn back: poems.
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
One-way ticket
2 editions - first published in 1949 -
Panther & the Lash Paper
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Thank you, m'am
2 editions - first published in 1991 -
Simply Heavenly: a comedy with music book and lyrics
2 editions - first published in 1959 -
Shakespeare in Harlem
2 editions - first published in 1942 -
Essential Langston Hughes CD
2 editions - first published in 2007 -
The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: an anthology from 1899 to the present.
2 editions - first published in 1967 Borrow -
Short stories
2 editions - first published in 1996 -
The return of Simple
2 editions - first published in 1994 Borrow -
Black magic
2 editions - first published in 1967 Borrow -
Famous Negro music makers
2 editions - first published in 1955 Borrow -
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book (Opie Library)
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
A pictorial history of Blackamericans
2 editions - first published in 1973 Borrow -
Good Morning, Revolution Uncollected Writings of Social Protest
1 edition - first published in 1981 -
Lament for dark peoples: and other poems.
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
African American history: four centuries of Black life
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Fight for freedom and other writings on civil rights
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Pictorial History Of African Americans, A
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Alabama' da Safak
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
The first book of rhythms
1 edition - first published in 1964 -
The political plays of Langston Hughes
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
The big sea, an autobiography
1 edition - first published in 1968 -
Pride and Promise: The Harlem Renaissance (Perspectives on History Series)
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Freedom's plow
1 edition - first published in 1946 -
I, too, am America
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Langston Hughes (Voice of the Poet)
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
The Simple Omnibus
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Fine clothes to the Jew
1 edition - first published in 1927 -
I wonder as I wonder
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Hughes Views of the Blues
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The poems, 1951-1967
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Langston Hughes Reads and Talks About His Poems (Sac 7140 Audio Cassette)
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Pictorial History Afric Amer 6e
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Vintage Hughes
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Five Plays by Langston Hughes (Midland Books, No 121)
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
Langston Reader
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Popo and Fifina
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Langston Hughes and the Chicago defender: essays on race, politics, and culture, 1942-62
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum generation
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
The poems, 1921-1940
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
The block: poems
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Oscuridad en España: (texto bilingüe)
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Twentieth Century Poets
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Works for Children and Young Adults: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Writing (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 11)
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Poetry of Langston Hughes
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
The Best of Simple (American Century Series, Ac39)
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
The collected works of Langston Hughes. Volume 6: gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works (Collected Works of Langston Hughes)
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Poetry and Reflections (Cdl5 1640 1)
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Montage of a dream deferred
1 edition - first published in 1951 -
La poésie négro-américaine: édition bilingue
1 edition - first published in 1966 -
The translations: Federico García Lorca, Nicolás Guillén, and Jacques Roumain
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Let America be America again
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
A new song
1 edition - first published in 1938 -
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum generation: the correspondence
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Voices & Visions-Langston Hughes
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Scottsboro limited: four poems and a play in verse
1 edition - first published in 1932 -
The Big Sea (American Century Series; 65)
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
Anthologie africaine et malgache
1 edition - first published in 1962 -
The Negro speaks of rivers
1 edition - first published in 2009
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