The Langston Hughes Page

( 1902-1967 )

Major Works
The Weary Blues ( 1926 ).
Fine Clothes to the Jew ( 1927 ).
Not Without Laughter ( 1930 ). A novel.
The Ways of White Folks( 1934 ). Stories.
The Big Sea ( 1940 ). The first of two autobiographical volumes.
Shakespeare in Harlem ( 1942 ).
Fields of Wonder ( 1947 ).
Elmer Rice, Street Scene ( 1947 ). Hughes wrote the lyrics for this musical. One-Way Ticket ( 1949 ).
Simple Speaks His Mind ( 1950 ). The first collection of columns from the Chicago Defender featuring Jesse B. Semple, or Simple, a Harlem original and creation of Hughes.
Montage of a Dream Deferred ( 1951 ).
Laughter to Keep from Crying ( 1952 ).
Simple Takes a Wife ( 1953 ).
I Wonder as I Wander ( 1956 ). The second volume of autobiography.
Simple Stakes a Claim ( 1957 ).
Simply Heavenly ( 1957 ). A musical spinoff from the Simple books.
The Langston Hughes Reader ( 1958 ).
Ask Your Mama ( 1961 ).
The Best of Simple ( 1961 ).
Black Nativity ( 1961 ).
Something in Common ( 1963 ).
Jericho-Jim Crow ( 1964 ).
Simple's Uncle Sam ( 1965 ). Akiba Sullivan Harper edited The Return of Simple in 1994.
Arnold Rampersad has edited The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Vintage, 1995.

About Hughes
Faith Berry, Before and Beyond Harlem: A Biography of Langston Hughes. Wings, 1995.
Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes. Two volumes. Oxford, 1986, 1988. Splendid.
Langston Hughes from PAL
Langston Hughes from Modern American Poets.
Langston Hughes from Internet School Library Media Ctr.

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