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, 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.