Langston Hughes Essay Examples

February 1, 1901
Joplin, Missouri, U.S.

May 22, 1967 (aged 66)
New York City, New York, U.S.

Poet, columnist, dramatist, essayist, novelist

Columbia University
Lincoln University

One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue.

Harlem (1951), Let America Be America Again (1936), I, Too, Sing America (1945),
The Weary Blues (1925), Po' Boy Blues (1926), Mother to Son (1922), Dreams (1922), The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)