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Full Name: Langston Hughes
Biography:
(1902-1967) Poet, writer, "Poet Laureate of Harlem." Langston Hughes worked, growing onions on a truck farm on Staten Island, in 1922. Hughes was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Joplin, Missouri, Mr. Hughes moved to Manhattan, New York, from Missouri in 1921; he studied at Columbia University, and later lived at 20 East 127th Street, New York, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1922 Richmond County
Mr. Hughes worked growing onions on a truck farm on Staten Island, New York, in 1922. 
1921 New York County
Mr. Hughes moved to Manhattan, New York, from Missouri in 1921; he studied at Columbia University, and later lived at 20 East 127th Street. 
1902 (Unknown) County
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. 
1967 (Unknown) County
Langston Hughes died in New York City, New York, in 1967. 
1940 (Unknown) County
The Big Sea
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: )
Autobiography. 
1926 (Unknown) County
The Weary Blues
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: )
Collection of poetry. 
1934 (Unknown) County
The Ways Of White Folks
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: )
Collection of short stories. 
1935 (Unknown) County
Mulatto
Play. 
1967 New York County
Langston Hughes was cremated and his ashes are buried in the Schomburg Library of African American Culture in Harlem, New York. 
1942 (Unknown) County
Shakespeare in Harlem
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: )
Collection of poetry written with Robert Glenn. 
1930 (Unknown) County
Not Without Laughter
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: )
Novel. 
1956 (Unknown) County
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
(Pub: Rinehart ISBN: )
Memoir. 
1934 (Unknown) County
The Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia
(Pub: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
1967 (Unknown) County
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0394404173 / 978-0394404172)
Poetry. 
1965 (Unknown) County
Simple's Uncle Sam
(Pub: Hill and Wang ISBN: )
Collection of stories. 
1932 (Unknown) County
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
(Pub: New York: A. A. Knopf ISBN: 9780394910963)
Children's book illustrated by Helen Sewell. 
1991 (Unknown) County
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
(Pub: HarperPerennial ISBN: 0060553014 / 978-0060553012)
Play written with Zora Neale Hurston; written in 1930, first produced and published in 1991. 
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