Langston Hughes was an American writer who is best known as a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the early 20th century. Hughes made the African American experience the subject of his writings, producing poetry, plays, novels, and newspaper columns to create a uniquely Black literature. As a poet he experimented with jazz poetry and blues poetry, particularly in his collection The Weary Blues (1926) and his poem cycle Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), which introduced his famous poem āHarlem.ā
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