Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, was educated at Lincoln University, and lived for most of his life in New York City. He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays, and children's books. Among his works are two volumes of memoirs, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, and two collections of Simple stories, The Best of Simple and The Return of Simple.
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Simple's Uncle Sam
Langston Hughes; Introduction by Akiba Sullivan Harper
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
Langston Hughes's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collection
Langston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was also a prolific writer of theater, autobiography,...
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The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes; Edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper; With an Introduction by Arnold Rampersad
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary...
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The Return of Simple
Langston Hughes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss and dispossession,...
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I Wonder as I Wander
Langston Hughes; Introduction by Arnold Rampersad
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia,...
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The Big Sea
Langston Hughes; Introduction by Arnold Rampersad
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
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...
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The Best of Simple
Langston Hughes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife,...
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