(NewsNation) — Langston Hughes, an iconic figure in American literature, was a trailblazing poet, novelist, playwright, and ...

Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet, lived in Lawrence with his grandmother between 1905 and 1913. As an adult, he wrote 16 books of poems, two novels and numerous other works ...

Harlem NYC, 1925. It is the time of one of the ... extract from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by Langston Hughes.