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Biographies of Hughes include Faith Berry, Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem (1983, reissued 1995); and Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (2002). Studies of Hughes’s works include Edward J. Mullen (ed.), Critical Essays on Langston Hughes (1986); R. Baxter Miller, The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes (1989, reissued 2015); Hans Ostrom, Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction (1993); Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah (eds.), Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (1993); Steven C. Tracy (ed.), A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (2004); John Edgar Tidwell and Cheryl R. Ragar (eds.), Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes (2007); and W. Jason Miller, Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture (2011).

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Article History

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Add new Web site: Official SIite of Langston Hughes. Nov 01, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 18, 2026
Added top questions. Feb 04, 2026
Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - The Life and Poetry of Langston Hughes. Jan 20, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - Langston Hughes' poetry celebrates Black culture; Cases of kids with long COVID rise. Jun 27, 2025
Media added. Apr 08, 2025
Added a section about the poem “Harlem.” Feb 25, 2025
Add new Web site: National Museum of African American History and Culture - Langston Hughes: The People's Poet. Jan 14, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Conversations with Langston Hughes. Dec 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Langston Hughes and His Poetry. Oct 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research - A Search for Black Identity, Consciousness and Dreams in the Poetry of Langston Hughes. Aug 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Lehigh University Scalar - Langston Hughes: Poems, Biography, and Timeline of his early career. Jun 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - Langston Hughes (1902-1967). May 09, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 14, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jan 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Case Western Reserve University - Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Langston Hughes. Oct 13, 2023
Links added. Aug 03, 2023
Add new Web site: My Hero - Langston Hughes. May 18, 2023
Links added. Jan 26, 2023
Add new Web site: All Poetry - Biography of Langston Hughes. Jan 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Famous African Americans - Biography of Langston Hughes. Apr 18, 2022
Add new Web site: Historic Missourians - Langston Hughes. Feb 14, 2021
Changed “black” to “Black.” Jul 27, 2020
Noted that research indicates that he might have been born in 1901. Aug 15, 2018
Article revised. Mar 03, 2017
Bibliography revised. Mar 03, 2017
Noted the publication of Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond. Feb 11, 2016
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Langston Hughes (1902-1967). May 22, 2015
Added the book I Wonder as I Wander (1956). Jun 06, 2014
Add new Web site: The Red Hot Jazz Archive - Biography of James Langston Hughes. Mar 05, 2014
Add new Web site: Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society - Biography of Langston Hughes. Mar 05, 2014
Add new Web site: The Poetry Archive - Biography of Langston Hughes. Mar 05, 2014
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of James Mercer Langston Hughes. Mar 05, 2014
Added a mention of the gospel play Black Nativity (1961). Nov 27, 2013
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Langston Hughes. Mar 08, 2013
Add new Web site: Modern American Poetry - Biography of Langston Hughes. Mar 08, 2013
Added new Web site: Famous Poets And Poems - Biography of Langston Hughes. Jul 16, 2007
Article revised and updated. Jun 27, 2007
Added new Web site: University of Groningen - Revolution to Reconstruction - Biography of Langston Hughes. May 14, 2007
Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Biography of Langston Hughes. Apr 25, 2007
Added new Web site: PBS Online - Hughes Timeline. Aug 28, 2006
Added new Web site: Poets.org - Langston Hughes. Aug 09, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jan 12, 2000
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