This extraordinary portrait of Langston Hughes, the most original and revered of black poets, depicts his life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941. Arnold Rampersad traces the nomadic and yet dedicated spirit that led Hughes to Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan, as well as all over the United States, while still a young man. Depicting his associations with a dazzling range of political activists, patrons, and fellow artists such as Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, ...
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This extraordinary portrait of Langston Hughes, the most original and revered of black poets, depicts his life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941. Arnold Rampersad traces the nomadic and yet dedicated spirit that led Hughes to Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan, as well as all over the United States, while still a young man. Depicting his associations with a dazzling range of political activists, patrons, and fellow artists such as Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Van Vechten, and Ernest Hemingway, Rampersad offers a sweeping panorama of culture and history in the early twentieth century.
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