Poet and playwright
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a major writer of the Harlem Renaissance. His poetry and drama draw on the rhythms of jazz, blues, and everyday speech.
On the shelves
Books in the collection
Picture book
My People
Langston Hughes
Hughes’s short poem becomes the basis of a photographic celebration of Black faces and lives.
Memoir
The Big Sea
Langston Hughes
Hughes remembers childhood, travel, and the artists and arguments around the Harlem Renaissance.
Poetry
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
An expansive collection follows Hughes across vernacular forms, music, and political imagination.
Short stories
The Ways of White Folks
Langston Hughes
Short fiction captures the shifting bargains of race and class across American life.