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James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.One of the earliest innovators of the literary form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Early Autumn is a 1926 novel by Louis Bromfield. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927. [1] In 1956, producer Benedict Bogeaus announced that he was adapting the book into a film to be titled "Conquest," [2] but the film was never made. [3] Early Autumn was the third installment in a series of four novels called Escape. [4]
Langston Hughes – The Weary Blues; Robert McAlmon – The Portrait of a Generation; Hugh MacDiarmid – A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle; Dorothy Parker – Enough Rope; Vita Sackville-West – The Land
Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...
Judith Stephens, " 'And Yet They Paused' and 'A Bill to Be Passed': Newly Recovered Lynching Dramas by Georgia Douglas Johnson", African American Review 33 (Autumn 1999): 519–22. Judith Stephens, The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson:From The New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press ...
American poet and social activist Langston Hughes began contributing to the magazine in the autumn 1941 issue, and would become the most frequent contributor to the magazine. He was an active member of the magazine's Advisory Editorial Board from its inception in spring of 1942 until the magazine ceased publication in 1950. [ 13 ]
The authors are Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes. Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell is the illustrator. 1936. The American Booksellers Association establishes the National Book Awards. 1937. Zora Neale Hurston writes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; Augusta Braxton Baker is hired as the children's librarian for the New York Public Library.
Mississippi–1955" or "Mississippi" is a poem written by Langston Hughes in response to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. Hughes was the first major African American writer to pen a response to the killing, and his poem was widely republished in the weeks that followed. It was initially dedicated to Emmett Till, but did not mention him specifically.