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Author Leach, Laurie F.

Title Langston Hughes : a biography / Laurie F. Leach.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. HUGHES, L.    Storage
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B HUGHES    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  818 H893XL    Check Shelf
Description xx, 176 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Greenwood biographies, 1540-4900
Greenwood biographies. 1540-4900
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-163) and index.
Contents Lonely boy -- Class poet -- The lure of Harlem -- At sea -- European adventure -- "Trying to catch a jazz rhythm" -- A rising Negro artist -- Park Avenue godmother -- The Mule bone of contention -- A turn toward socialism -- Film project in Moscow -- Soviet journey -- Uneasy in Carmel -- Adrift -- Under fire -- Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow -- "Red-tinged poet" -- "Fooling around with the theatre" -- Facing down McCarthy -- Hughes and the freedom movement -- Hughes's final years.
Subject Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American poets -- Biography.
African Americans in literature.
ISBN 0313324972 alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780313324970 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 90000
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