HARLEM, New York City (WABC) -- Langston Hughes was one of the foremost figures of the Harlem Renaissance, where he lived in a brownstone for the last 20 years of his life. Hughes lived in the house ...

Arnold Rampersad edited The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. His two-volume biography of writer Langston Hughes is now out in a second edition. It was praised by critics as one of the best ...

While researching a new book identifying Lawrence locations significant in the life of Langston Hughes, Denise Low and T.F. Pecore Weso made an interesting discovery. “Every place in Lawrence that ...

University of Kansas associate professor and playwright Darren Canady stars as Langston Hughes in Theatre Lawrence's "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" Langston Hughes has always been a part of ...

In 1923, after a successful but dull freshman year at Columbia University, Langston Hughes, already a brilliant, award-winning poet, took a job as a mess boy on a freighter, the West Hesseltine, so he ...

Poet Langston Hughes was also an "inveterate letter writer," says the co-editor of a new compilation of his correspondence. But if you're hoping... Tumultuous Relationships, But Not Much Gossip, In ...

Langston Hughes has written 19 shows including Mulatto (Playwright), Street Scene (Lyricist), The Barrier (Bookwriter), Simply Heavenly (Bookwriter/Lyricist), Soul ...

An influential American writer from the early to mid 20th century. Beginning with the publication of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in 1921, Hughes first captured the public's imagination as a poet. A ...