Author: Rampersad, Arnold,
Title: The Life of Langston Hughes: volume 1: 1902-1941: I, too, sing America.
Description: NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1986. 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Traces his life from birth in. Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941, a driven man who strove to give the appearance of a happy wanderer. Descended from a family steeped in radical Abolitionism, he suffered as a child from parental neglect, left in the care of a grandmother while trying unsuccessfully to find a career in the theater. Library markings, damp stain bottom fore-edge near spine.

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