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Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942. (Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)

Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

Author of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

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22
Langston Hughes
Booknotes, Sunday, April 22, 2001
Langston Hughes discusses Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.

These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten—older, established, and white—was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship—and for nearly four decades the two men wrote to each other expressively and constantly. They discussed literature and publishing. They exchanged favorite blues lyrics (?So now I know what Bessie Smith really meant by ?Thirty days in jail / With ma back turned to de wall,?? Hughes wrote Van Vechten after a stay in a Cleveland jail on trumped-up charges). They traded stories about the hottest parties and the wildest speakeasies. They argued politics. They gossiped about the people they knew in common—James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken. They wrote from near (of racism in Scottsboro) and far (of dancing in Cuba and trekking across the Soviet Union), and always with playfulness and mutual affection. Today Van Vechten is a controversial figure; some consider him exploitative, at best peripheral to the Harlem Renaissance or, indeed, as the author of the novel Nigger Heaven, a blemish upon it, and upon Hughes by association. The letters tell a different, more subtle and complex story: Van Vechten did, in fact, help Hughes (and many other young black writers) to get published; Hughes in turn appreciated what Van Vechten was trying to do in Nigger Heaven and defended him, fiercely. For all their differences, Hughes and Van Vechten remained staunchly loyal to each other throughout their lives. A correspondence of great cultural significance, judiciously gathered together here for the first time and annotated by the insightful young scholar Emily Bernard, Remember Me to Harlem shows us an unlikely friendship, one that is essential to our understanding of literature and race relations in twentieth-century America. —from the publisher (timspalding)… (more)
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23
James Hughes
To The Best of Our Knowledge, Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 0am

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Canonical name
Legal name
Hughes, James Mercer Langston
Other names
Date of birth
1902-02-01
Date of death
1967-05-22
Burial location
Langston Huges Auditorium, Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, New York, New York, USA (cremated)
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Joplin, Missouri, USA
Place of death
New York, New York, USA
Places of residence
Joplin, Missouri, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA (death)
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Westfield, New Jersey, USA
Education
Columbia University
Lincoln University (AB ∙ 1929)
Occupations
poet
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
children's author
Relationships
Bontemps, Arna (friend)
Van Vechten, Carl (friend)
Koestler, Arthur (friend)
Langston, John Mercer (great-uncle)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1961])
Authors Guild
Dramatists Guild
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Awards and honors
Spingarn Medal, NAACP (1960)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1946])
Guggenheim Fellowship
Rosenwald Fund Fellowship
National Institute of Arts and Letters
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