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  1. 3 days ago · Annenberg Learner - Langston Hughes (1902-1967) (May 09, 2024) Langston Hughes (born February 1, 1902?, Joplin, Missouri, U.S.—died May 22, 1967, New York, New York) was an American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and made the African American experience the subject of his writings, which ranged from poetry and ...

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  2. May 5, 2024 · He would go on to write several more books, including Not Without Laughter and The Big Sea, which demonstrated his talent as an author and his dedication to celebrating the African-American experience. One of the major contributions of Hughes to the Harlem Renaissance was his influence to bring together African-American poets and musicians.

  3. 4 days ago · Langston Hughes was an influential African-American poet, playwright, novelist, and activist. Born in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes was one of the most popular writers of the Harlem Renaissance. His work focused on racism, segregation, and oppression of African-Americans, as well as the need for celebration and self-expression.

  4. May 10, 2024 · Shields, John P. “” Never Cross the Divide”: Reconstructing Langston Hughes’s Not without Laughter.” African American Review 28.4 (1994): 601-613. Smith, Katharine Capshaw. “A Cross-Written Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes’s The Dream Keeper.” The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Literature (2011): 129. Berry, Faith.

  5. Apr 30, 2024 · In 1930, soon after graduating from Lincoln University, Hughes published his first novel, Not Without Laughter, through Alfred A. Knopf. The book won the Harmon gold medal for literature and earned Hughes enough money to make writing his full-time vocation. Throughout the 1930s Hughes continued writing and publishing.

  6. 6 days ago · In 1930's Not Without Laughter, Sandy Rogers is an African-American boy growing up in Kansas during the early 1900s—a story loosely based on Hughes's own experiences living in Lawrence and ...

  7. 6 days ago · This commitment to realism ranged from the ghetto realism that created such controversy when writers exposed negative aspects of African American life, to beautifully crafted and detailed portraits of black life in small towns such as in Hughes's novel, Not Without Laughter, or the witty and biting depiction of Harlem's black literati in ...

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