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Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1901, was a leading Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance Hughes invented jazz poetry Regardless of whether he was...

A classic anthology of short stories by Black writers including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright -- edited and with an introdu...

A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and wh...

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes him...

2020 Reprint of the 1930 Edition. Hughes award-winning first novel, about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town. When first ...

The Short Stories of Langston HughesThis collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963—the most comprehensive available—showcas...

The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundament...

Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years ...

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.His wanderlust...

From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the ex...

This Coretta Scott King Award-winning photography book based on Langston Hughes’s classic poem is perfect for kids and moving and powerful for re...