Person Detail: Langston Hughes

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General Information:
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, Hughes moved to Manhattan 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 Hughes worked, growing onions on a truck farm on Staten Island, New York, in 1922.
1921		New York County 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: Knopf. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry (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, 1934. ISBN: ) Nonfiction.
1967		(Unknown) County The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (Pub: Knopf. ISBN: ) Poetry.
1965		(Unknown) County Simple's Uncle Sam (Pub: Hill and Wang. ISBN: ) 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 Play written with Zora Neale Hurston; written in 1930, first produced and published in 1991.