• Harlem Renaissance
• Jazz Poetry
Books by this Poet
• The Weary Blues
James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1,1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, due to the fact that his parents divorced. His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. After his graduation from Lincoln in 1929, Langston Hughes published his first novel, Not Without Laughter. May 22, 1967, Langston Hughes died from complications of prostate cancer. His funeral little in the way of spoken eulogy, but filled with jazz and blues music.
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