Hughes, Langston

A twentieth-century African-American author known for his poems about the black experience in the United States. He was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance .

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A famous line from one of his poems is “�� happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” Lorraine Hansbury, a celebrated African-American playwright, named her first play, A Raisin in the Sun , after this line.

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And biographers had already established that James Hughes, Langston’s father, who had left the family shortly after his son’s birth, was living in Buffalo.

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See Hughes, John M. C. Hughes, Everett C., 1607 Hughes, John M. C., 963 Hughes, Langston, 122- 123, 225- 226, 667, 753, 985, 1108, 1110- 1115, 1219, 1244, 1253- 1257, 1259- 1261, 1387 ed.,

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