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Person Detail: Langston Hughes
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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, 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. |
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| 1922 |
Richmond County Hughes worked, growing onions on a truck farm on Staten Island, New York, in 1922. |
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| 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. |
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| 1902 |
(Unknown) County Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. |
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| 1967 |
(Unknown) County Langston Hughes died in New York City, New York in 1967. |
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| 1940 |
(Unknown) County The Big Sea (Pub: Knopf. ISBN: ) Autobiography. |
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| 1926 |
(Unknown) County The Weary Blues (Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: ) Collection of poetry. |
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| 1934 |
(Unknown) County The Ways Of White Folks (Pub: Knopf ISBN: ) Collection of short stories. |
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| 1935 |
(Unknown) County Mulatto Play. |
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| 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. |
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| 1942 |
(Unknown) County Shakespeare in Harlem (Pub: Knopf. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry (with Robert Glenn). |
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| 1930 |
(Unknown) County Not Without Laughter (Pub: Knopf. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1956 |
(Unknown) County I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey (Pub: Rinehart. ISBN: ) Memoir. |
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| 1934 |
(Unknown) County The Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia (Pub: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1934. ISBN: ) Nonfiction. |
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| 1967 |
(Unknown) County The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (Pub: Knopf. ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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| 1965 |
(Unknown) County Simple's Uncle Sam (Pub: Hill and Wang. ISBN: ) Stories. |
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| 1932 |
(Unknown) County The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (Pub: New York: A. A. Knopf. ISBN: 9780394910963) Children's book illustrated by Helen Sewell. |
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| 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. |
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