Category - Fiction

Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His...

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

Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have ...

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

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 ...

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

Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes proves himself one of modern literature's most revere...

Langston Hughes's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collection Langston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was al...