Hughes, Langston
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, b. Joplin, Mo., grad. Lincoln Univ., 1929. He worked at a variety...graduated in 1929. His writing, which often uses dialect and jazz rhythms, is largely concerned with depicting African American...