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Also Known As	James Mercer Langston Hughes
Born	February 1, 1901? • Joplin • Missouri
Died	May 22, 1967 • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	Spingarn Medal (1960)
Notable Works	“Dream Variation” • “Fine Clothes to the Jew” • “Harlem” • “Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond” • “Mule Bone” • “Not Without Laughter” • “One-Way Ticket” • “The Panther and the Lash” • “The Big Sea” • “The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes” • “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” • “The Weary Blues”
Movement / Style	Harlem Renaissance

At Columbia, Hughes studied Engineering and Chemistry because his father wanted him to study a subject more lucrative than writing.
Senator Joseph McCarthy accused Langston Hughes of being a Communist and forced him to testify in Washington, D.C.
Langston Hughes temporarily worked as a cook in Paris.