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LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
An American poet and central figure
of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes worked at a
variety of jobs and lived in several countries, including Mexico and France, before Vachel
Lindsay discovered his poetry in 1925. The publication of The Weary Blues (1926), his first
volume of poetry, enabled Hughes to attend Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, from which he
graduated in 1929. His writing, which often uses dialect and jazz rhythms, is largely
concerned with depicting African American life, particularly the experience of the urban
African American.
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