![]() ![]() Fluent in French and Spanish, he lived for various periods in Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, and the Soviet Union. ![]() His dramatically unorthodox career included stints as a laundry boy, an assistant cook, and a busboy he also served as a seaman on voyages to Europe and Africa. Hughes attended Columbia University between 19, and received his A.B. His father, James Nathaniel, was a businessman, and his mother, Carrie Langston Mercer, was a teacher. ![]() Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. It is not surprising, then, that Hughes was known, variously, as “Shakespeare in Harlem” and as the “poet laureate of the Negro.” He also translated Jacques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, Gabriela Mistral, and Federico García Lorca, and wrote at least thirty plays. Between 1926, when he published his pioneering The Weary Blues, to 1967, the year of his death, when he published The Panther and the Lash, Hughes would write 16 books of poems, two novels, seven collections of short stories, two autobiographies, five works of nonfiction, and nine children’s books he would edit nine anthologies of poetry, folklore, short fiction, and humor. With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and the Black Arts movement of the sixties, Langston Hughes was the most prolific black poet of his era. ![]()
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