Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. He worked on cargo ships to West Africa and Europe, then lived for a time in Paris, in the kitchens of a nightclub. A central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he taught for a time in Atlanta and then in Chicago in the late forties. Questioned in 1953 by Senator McCarthy's subcommittee, he judged his youthful writings unrepresentative and afterwards moved away from political poetry. He died in New York in 1967.

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• PoetryThe Weary BluesLangston Hughes · 1926LiteraturePublic domain