Langston+Hughes


 * James Mercer Langston Hughes** (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form [|jazz poetry] . Hughes is best-known for his work during the [|Harlem Renaissance] . He famously wrote about the Harlem Renaissance, saying that "Harlem was in vogue"

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Hughes, photographed by [|Carl Van Vechten] in 1936

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 * //[|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
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">//<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Black Nativity] //. 1961
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">//Five Plays by Langston Hughes//. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">//<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Jericho-Jim Crow] //. 1964

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