Description
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is commonly recognized as a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance (1919-1929). In "Hughes's Life and Career," Arnold Rampersad, professor of humanities at Stanford University, provides a biographical essay that illustrates the influences and experiences that marked Hughes's family background, education, writing and travel. the essay explores a common thread in Hughes's writing: race and race relations and the urban black community. Photographic portraits of Hughes from his early career to established years accompany the essay.
Source
Arnold Rampersad, "Hughes's Life and Career," from (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), available on http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/Hughes/life.htm.