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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
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When he was born
Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He lived to be 65 years old, and he died May 22, 1967 in Manhattan, New York City
When he was born
Family
Langston Hughes was an only child, and was raised by his mother and grandmother. After his grandmothers death, he and his mother moved around until they reached Cleveland.
Family
Early childhood
Langston Hughes was an only child and he was raised by his mother and grandmother. After his grandmother's death he and his mother moved to Cleveland.
Early childhood
Accomplishments
He won an Opportunity magazine poetry prize in 1925. The same year, Van Vechten introduced Langston Hughes’s poetry to the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, who accepted the collection that Knopf would publish as The Weary Blues in 1926. He received the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Award.
Accomplishments
What he did to make society great
Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. ... His literary works helped shape American literature and politics.
What he did to make society great
How/when he died
Langston Hughes died May 22, 1967, due to complication during surgery. He was getting a procedure done for his Prostate cancer, and something went wrong. He died in the Stuyvesant Polyclinic in New York City, at the age of 65.
How/when he died
Legacy left
Langston Hughes is known as an inspiring writer and poet. He also was a enormous influence on the Harlem Renaissance.
Legacy left
Does his work continue?
Some of his more famous poems are being sold around the world and even some other writers write about his life and success.