A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Carrie, a business manager who always wanted to be a dancer, has two commitments today. She made a promise to her late father to move Cousin Ella, a former Paris cafe dancer, from her condemned Harlem apartment to a safe place. She's also committed to catch a flight to Seattle with her husband for his new job. But Cousin Ella resists leaving the apartment where she's had salons with Langston Hughes. She also has a mysterious gift that she wants Carrie...

"They were best friends. They were collaborators, literary gadflies, and champions of the common people. They were the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Langston Hughes, the author of 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Let America Be America Again,' first met in 1925, at a great gathering of black and white literati, and they fascinated each other. They traveled together in...

Selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."

A series of poems written from the point of view of the poet Langston Hughes, offering an overview of key events and themes in his life.

A poem to celebrate the African American poet, Langston Hughes, born on February 1, 1902.

Poet, playwright, and short story writer Langston Hughes remains perhaps one of the most well known African American writers of the twentieth century. This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the poet laureate of Harlem. --from publisher description.