Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes is one of the most well know names of the Harlem Renaissance. He was a writer, to write pieces ranged from novels, short stories, children’s books, translations, and anthologies his most well know pieces were his poems. Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin. His parents divorced him when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico, he was raised with his Grandmother until he was thirteen. When he moved to Lincoln, and lives with his mother in Cleveland. He was in Lincoln to began writing poetry. Following graduation, he spent a year in Mexico and a year at Columbia University. During these years, he held old jobs as an assistant cool, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. In 1929，he attended The Lincoln University and got Master’s degree three years later. He always came back to New York’s Harlem area，the center of black life in New York city. Hughes’s creativity was influenced by his life in Harlem. Langston Hughes returned to New York during a period called the Harlem Renaissance. It took place during the Nineteen-Twenties and Thirties. The Harlem Renaissance was a period of great artistic creativity among black people. For the first time, black artistic expression was being widely recognized. On May 22, 1967 Langston Hughes died from complications after abdominal surgery, related to prostate cancer at age of 65.He accomplished many goals throughout his life, and was one of the greatest American writers of all time.
Langston Hughes a remarkable American black poet was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1925, Landston Hughes opportunity magazine’s literary contest, he won first prize in poetry. In the same year, he entered the Amy Spingarn Contest in Crisis magazine and won poetry and essay prizes. His first book of poetry<The Weary Blues> was published in 1926. And in 1930, his first novel<Not without Laughter>, won the Harmon