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Langston Hughes : a biography / Laurie F. Leach.

Leach, Laurie F. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0313324972
  • ISBN: 9780313324970
  • Physical Description: xx, 176 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Chapter 1 Lonely Boy 1 -- Chapter 2 Class Poet 7 -- Chapter 3 Lure of Harlem 15 -- Chapter 4 At Sea 21 -- Chapter 5 European Adventure 25 -- Chapter 6 "Trying to Catch a Jazz Rhythm" 29 -- Chapter 7 A Rising Negro Artist 35 -- Chapter 8 Park Avenue Godmother 41 -- Chapter 9 Mule Bone of Contention 49 -- Chapter 10 A Turn toward Socialism 61 -- Chapter 11 Film Project in Moscow 71 -- Chapter 12 Soviet Journey 77 -- Chapter 13 Uneasy in Carmel 85 -- Chapter 14 Adrift 93 -- Chapter 15 Under Fire 99 -- Chapter 16 Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow 109 -- Chapter 17 "Red-Tinged Poet" 117 -- Chapter 18 "Fooling around with the Theatre" 125 -- Chapter 19 Facing Down McCarthy 131 -- Chapter 20 Hughes and the Freedom Movement 139 -- Chapter 21 Hughes's Final Years 149.
Subject: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
African American poets > Biography.
African Americans in literature.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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