Langston Hughes: A Biography

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Author: Hughes, James Mercer Langston (1902 –1967) Milton Meltzer (1915- ) Year: 1968 Publisher: Thomas Y Crowell Co Place: New York Description: xiii+281 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") issued in beige with brown lettering to spine. 1st edition. The son of Carrie Langston Hughes (a teacher) and her husband, James Nathaniel Hughes, Langston Hughes was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes is of both African American and Native American descent. After abandoning his family and the later legal dissolution of the marriage, James Hughes left for Cuba, then Mexico, as a consequence of the enduring racism in the United States.[2] After the separation of his parents, young Langston was raised mainly by his grandmother, Mary Langston, as his mother sought employment. Through the black American oral tradition of storytelling, she would instill in the young Langston Hughes a sense of lasting racial pride. He spent most of childhood in Lawrence, Kansas. After the death of his grandmother, he went to live with family friends, James and Mary Reed, for two years. Due to an unstable early life, his childhood was not an entirely happy one, but it was one that heavily influenced the poet he would become. Later, he lived again with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, who had remarried when he was still an adolescent, and eventually in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended high school.While in grammar school in Lincoln, Illinois, he was designated c

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