81. Langston Hughes Quotes langston hughes Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/langstonhu101252.html

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82. Salon.com Audio | "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" langston hughes was born in Joplin, Mo., in 1902. It was during his high school years that he began writing poetry. He moved to Harlem, New York, http://archive.salon.com/audio/poetry/2001/02/15/langston_hughes/index

Search About Salon Table Talk Newsletters: subscribe/unsubscribe ... Search All of Salon.com Only Audio The Web with Directory Hot Topics Mr. Lif Cary Tennis Audio Edgar Allen Poe Aimee Mann ... Neil Gaiman Audio by Genre Music Reviews Biography Fiction Nonfiction ... Self-help Articles by date All of Salon.com By department The Movie Page Books ... Table Talk [Free, spirited Salon forums] The evolution of Bob Dylan. Cover me: Your favorite version of your favorite song. Posts of the week The Well [Pioneering members-only discussions] Let's get catty! Sound Off E-mail Salon Send us a Letter to the Editor Today's letters Downloads Get Salon.com on your PDA Salon.com headlines from More ways to get Salon "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Read by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Mo., in 1902. It was during his high school years that he began writing poetry. He moved to Harlem, New York, in November 1924 and his first book of poetry, "The Weary Blues," was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. Three years later he finished his college education. Print story E-mail story Hughes is known for his portrayals of black life in America and his art reflects a strong jazz influence. His writing is essential to the body of work produced during the Harlem Renaissance. He was also the author of numerous novels, short stories and plays. Langston Hughes died in 1967.

83. The Collected Works Of Langston Hughes A century after his birth in Joplin, Missouri, langston hughes is, in a sense, coming home. The University of Missouri Press is proud to have completed the http://press.umsystem.edu/hughes.htm

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS The Collected Works of Langston Hughes A century after his birth in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes is, in a sense, coming home. The University of Missouri Press is proud to have completed the publication of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the twentieth century's most prolific and influential African American authors. The series makes available Hughes's most famous works as well as lesser-known and out-of-print selections, providing readers and libraries with a comprehensive source for the first time. Hughes moved to Harlem in the 1920s and ultimately became the most prominent figure in the literary, artistic, and intellectual phenomenon known as the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote poems for The Crisis and in 1926 published his first book of poetry, The Weary Blues. Over the decades until his death in 1967, he became one of the best-known and most versatile American writers of the twentieth century. His creative range poetry, novels, short fiction, drama, translations, gospel-song plays, libretti, juvenile fiction, radio and television scripts, history, and autobiography

84. Langston Hughes -- Selected Poems langston hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. He travelled as a seaman to Europe and Africa, lived in Mexico, Paris, Italy and the Soviet Union. http://www.jotpuree.com/writing/langston_hughes/index.html

Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. He travelled as a seaman to Europe and Africa, lived in Mexico, Paris, Italy and the Soviet Union. But his heart and home were in Harlem where he lived for many years. His writing included journalism, books for children, humor, librettos, lyrics, drama, radio scripts and, above all, poetry. A deep concern for Negro life pervaded him and was reflected in his work and the many honors awarded him. While creating the volume of Black Misery , he died in 1967. Selected Poems Mulatto Ku Klux Black Misery The Negro Mother ... Anthony d'Auria Last modified: Mon Mar 18 22:32:33 EST 2002

85. Langston Hughes — Infoplease.com See his autobiographies, The Big Sea (1940) and I Wonder as I Wander (1956); The Collected Poems of langston hughes (1995), ed. by A. Rampersad and D. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0824458.html

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