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... Among the major writers who are usually viewed as part of the Harlem Renaissance is Langston Hughes.
James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri. ... His father, James Nathaniel Hughes, was a storekeeper. ... Hughes’s parents separated and his mother moved from city to city in search of work. During his childhood, Hughes lived in Mexico, Topeka, Kansas, Colorado, Indiana, and Buffalo. ... The family later moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Hughes’s stepfather worked in the steel mills. During this period, Hughes found the poems of Carl Sandbury, whose unrhymed free verse influenced him deeply. After graduating from high school in Cleveland, Hughes spent a year in Mexico with his father, who was very fair skinned. ... Hughes’s father didn’t believe that he could make a living as a writer and encouraged Langston to pursue a more practical career. Langston entered Columbia University upon his father’s expense. Langston took up engineering and a short time after, he abandoned the program but he continued to write poetry. ... Langston began to participate in more entertaining jazz and blues activities in nearby Harlem.
In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroon’s, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France, Russia, and Spain. ... ” At this same time, Hughes accepted a job with Dr. ...
One of Hughes’ finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled “The Negro Artist and the Radical Mountain.
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