Author:Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

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Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Prose 1.3 Drama 2 Copyright 3 External Links

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry

• The Weary Blues, (1926)
• Fine Clothes to the Jew, (1927)
• Dear Lovely Death, (1931)
• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems]], (1932)
• Scottsboro Limited, (1932)
• Shakespeare in Harlem, (1942)
• Freedom's Plow, (1943)
• Fields of Wonder, (1947)
• One-Way Ticket, (1949)
• Montage of a Dream, Deferred (1951)
• Selected Poems, (1959)
• Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, (1961)
• The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, (1967)
• Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, (1994) Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel

[edit] Prose

• Not Without Laughter, (1930)
• The Ways of White Folks, (1934)
• The Big Sea, (1940)
• Simple Speaks His Mind, (1950)
• Laughing to Keep From Crying, (1952)
• Simple Takes a Wife, (1953)
• I Wonder as I Wander, (1956)
• Simple Stakes a Claim, (1957)
• The Langston Hughes Reader, (1958)
• Tambourines to Glory, (1958)
• Something in Common and Other Stories, (1963)
• Simple's Uncle Sam, (1965)
• Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes, (1973) Edited by Faith Berry.
• The Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, (1980) Edited by Charles Nichols.
• Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964, (2001) Edited by Emily Bernard

[edit] Drama

• Mule Bone, (1930)
• Little Ham, (1935)
• Mulatto, (1935)
• Soul Gone Home, (1937)
• Don't You Want to Be Free?, (1938)
• Simply Heavenly, (1957)
• Black Nativity, (1961)
• Five Plays by Langston Hughes, (1963) Edited by Webster Smalley.
• The Political Plays of Langston Hughes, (2000) Introduction by Susan Duffy.
• Collected Works of Langston Hughes, vol. 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, (2000) Edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders.

[edit] Copyright

• The Estate of Langston Hughes are active protectors of the intellectual property of his works. They have been gracious enough to allow a few sites to release a few poems by Langston Hughes. These sites are listed below.

[edit] External Links

• The Academy of American Poets
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Borzoi Reader
• Ossie Davis readings
• Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance

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