Langston Hughes

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photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USW3-033841-C DLC

Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) is one of 52 authors who appear on our "Notable Writers of Color" poster, on display in the English Department Advising Office.

Selected Works:

The Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters

Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz

The Big Sea

Dear Lovely Death

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Fields of Wonder

Fine Clothes to the Jew

Freedom's Plow

Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes

I Wonder as I Wander

The Langston Hughes Reader

Laughing to Keep From Crying

Montage of a Dream Deferred

Not Without Laughter

One-Way Ticket

The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964

Scottsboro Limited

Selected Poems

Shakespeare in Harlem

Simple Speaks His Mind

Simple Stakes a Claim

Simple Takes a Wife

Simple's Uncle Sam

Something in Common and Other Stories

Tambourines to Glory

The Ways of White Folks

The Weary Blues