Langston Hughes

Author 23 / Writer · 1930 – 2002 · 🎬 1 📖 23

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Fiction African Americans African Americans -- Fiction Drama Reading level-grade 11

Highlights

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver

2002

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

2002

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience

1999

Frequent Collaborators

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Carl Sandburg

9 shared

Paul Laurence Dunbar

9 shared

Mark Twain

9 shared

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Edgar Allan Poe

9 shared

Robert Frost

8 shared

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8 shared

All decades 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

🎬 Movies

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Way Down South

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1939

📖 Books

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver

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2002

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

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2002

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience

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1999

Short stories

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1996

Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold

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1994

The return of Simple

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1994

Prentice Hall Literature--Silver

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1991

Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience

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1989

Wolf's Complete Book of Terror

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1979

The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition

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1973

The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition

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1973

The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers

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1967

Something in common, and other stories

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1963

The best of Simple

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1961

Tambourines to glory

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1958

The sweet flypaper of life

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1955

Laughing to keep from crying

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1952

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition

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1952

Simple speaks his mind

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1950

The big sea

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1940

Simple's Uncle Sam

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1940

The ways of white folks

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1934

Not without laughter

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1930

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