Langston Hughes

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.  The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the...

The Panther and the Lash

by Langston Hughes

I am the American heartbreak—

The rock on which Freedom

Stumped its toe—

The great mistake

That Jamestown made

Long ago.

— Langston Hughes, “American Heartbreak”

From the publication of his first book...

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

by Langston Hughes

Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format,...

The Ways of White Folks: Stories

by Langston Hughes

In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Return of Simple

by Langston Hughes

Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss and dispossession, but he...

Not Without Laughter

by Langston Hughes

Tambourines to Glory

by Langston Hughes

Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes's breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different...

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

by Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten & Emily Bernard

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for...

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes, Akiba Sullivan Harper & Arnold Rampersad

This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns....