How was Langston Hughes so important to Harlem Renaissance?

Langston Hughes was one of America's most talented poets and writers. read more

Langston Hughes: Harlem Renaissance. BACK; NEXT ; In 1926, Hughes's professional life took off. Knopf published his first book, a poetry collection entitled The Weary Blues. Along with a few other writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Wallace Thurman, Hughes launched a literary magazine entitled Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro. read more

Harper, Donna Sullivan, Not So Simple: The"Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes, University of Missouri Press (Columbia), 1995. Hart, W., editor, American Writers' Congress, International, 1935. Hill, Christine, H., Langston Hughes: Poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Hanslow Pub. (Springfield, NJ), 1997. read more