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Life of Langston Hughes

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ISBN-10: 0195040112

ISBN-13: 9780195040111

Edition: 1986

Authors: Arnold Rampersad

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Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--Langston Hughes was one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century. This book is the first installment of a projected two-volume life that will undoubtedly be the definitive biography of Hughes. Based on exhaustive research in archival collections throughout the country and abroad but primarily in the Langston Hughes Papers (previously closed to most scholars) at the Beinecke Library of Yale University, the book traces in detail Hughes's life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941. Descended from a family steeped in radical Abolitionism (an ancestor had fought…    
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/2/1986
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 2.156
Language: English