Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

Moshe Simpson and Eugene Nance

Moshe Simpson and Eugene Nance

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin Missouri, 1902. His parents separated and he grew up with his mother, and a childless couple named reed. He attended school in Kansas and Illinois, and graduated from a school in Cleveland Ohio. After high school he went to mexico to spend a year with his dad, who tried to discourage him from writing. Langston returned to american and enrolled into Columbia university, the newspaper the Crisis printed more of his poems while he was in college. Finding Columbia University unpleasant he left. 

Hughes's poetry and prose were beginning to appear in the Brownie's Book.For a time he worked as a cabin boy on a merchant ship, visited Africa, and wrote poems for a number of American magazines. In 1923 and 1924 Hughes lived in Paris.Later in 1924 Hughes went to live with his mother in Washington, D.C. while working one day in the that evening Lindsay read Hughes's poems to an audience and announced his discovery of a "Negro busboy poet." 

The next day reporters and photographers eagerly greeted Hughes at work to hear more of his compositions.worked as a hotel busboy but he got  paid very little. during that time The Weary Blues won its first  prize in 1925 in a literary competition. Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967. One of his famous quotes were "hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

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