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Born February 1st, 1902 as James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri.
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Throughout time many professionals have analyzed Hughes’ work and many came to the conclusion that he may have been gay. He used a lot of gay slang words and terms in his writing and that lead many people to believe he was a homosexual. Though, one analyst disagrees and argues that Hughes was an asexual and not a homosexual, though there’s not as much evidence to back that accusation up.
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Hughes worked as a columnist for the Chicago Defender for twenty years while also carrying on the responsibilities of being a published writer and political activist.
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Despite his denial in being anything more than someone included in the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes was the leading figure.
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Not Without Laughter was Hughes’ debut novel, it was published in 1930.
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Langston Hughes had his first poetry collection published in 1926. It was titled The Weary Blues.
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In 1935 Hughes’ play “Mulatto” opened on Broadway
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Following complications after a surgery for prostate cancer, Hughes died at the age of 65.
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The home in Harlem at East 127th Street that Langston Hughes grew up in has become a national registered landmark.
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There is a medal that is awarded to talented African American writers in his name from the City College of New York
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While still a teenager Hughes had his most famous poem “Negro Speaks of Rivers” published.
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After visiting the Soviet Union Hughes became fascinated with communism
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Prolific Profile
Everything Hughes had written from 1920 until his death in 1967, was nothing short of impressive. Along with his two autobiographies, he published 16 volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories, nine children’s books and two novels. He also wrote at least 20 plays, as well as handfuls of scripts for radio,film and television.
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Hughes’ second Autobiography was titled I Wonder as I Wander which was a small tribute to all of the traveling he had done in his life.
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Travel Experiences
Despite being known as closely related to the Harlem Renaissance and lived in that neighborhood in Manhattan for many years of his life he spent a lot of his life constantly traveling. His father lived in Mexico and he joined him there later in his life but not before living in Kansas, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. When he was in his early 20′s he worked on a ship that brought him to more exotic places of the world such as Africa and Holland. He later also found himself in France and Italy. In 1923 he visited Haiti and Cuba and wound up in Central Asia and the Far East. He had a brief experience in the Soviet Union due to an ill fated film project. One of his more successful adventures was in Spain because of a job he had covering the civil war for the Baltimore Afro-American.
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Hughes published his first memoir at the age of 38 but was asked to write one much earlier around the age of 23.
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Honors and Awards
Honors and awards
1926: Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize.
1935: Guggenheim Fellowship
1941 Fellowship from the Rosenwald Fund.
1943: Honorary Litt.D at Lincoln University
1954: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
1960: Spingarn Medal for distinguished achievements by an African American.
1961: National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1963: Honorary doctorate at Howard University
1964: honorary Litt.D from Western Reserve University
1973: the first Langston Hughes Medal was awarded by the City College of New York.
1979: Langston Hughes Middle School was created in Reston, Virginia.
1981: New York City Landmark status was given to the Harlem home of Langston Hughes at 20 East 127th Street (40°48′26.32″N 73°56′25.54″W) by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and 127th Street was renamed "Langston Hughes Place".
The Langston Hughes House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
2002: The United States Postal Service added the image of Langston Hughes to its Black Heritage series of postage stamps.
2002: scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Langston Hughes on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
2009: Langston Hughes High School was created in Fairburn, Georgia.
2015: Google Doodle commemorated his 113th birthday.
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