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Prostate</a><br><b>Remains:</b> Cremated<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> Black<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> <a href="/lists/243/000069036/" class=proflink>Matter of Dispute</a><br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/198/000068991/" class=proflink>Poet</a>, Novelist, <a href="/lists/205/000068998/" class=proflink>Playwright</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>The Negro Speaks of Rivers</i><p><hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1"><font size=-1>[1] Polyclinic Hospital, New York City. </font><p><b>Father:</b> James Hughes<br><b>Mother:</b> Carolina Mercer Langston (b. 1873, m. 1899)<br><p> High School: <a href="/edu/751/000366650/">Central High School, Cleveland, OH</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">Columbia University (attended 1921-2)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/535/000102229/">AB, Lincoln University Pennsylvania (1929)</a><br><p> <a href="/org/036/000353971/">Hollywood Anti-Fascist League</a> <br> <a href="/org/041/000353976/">League of American Writers</a> <br> <a href="/org/233/000116882/">Poetry Society of America</a> <br> <a href="/org/517/000041394/">Omega Psi Phi Fraternity</a> <br> <a href="/honors/485/000032389/">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> <br> <a href="/honors/809/000089542/">Rosenwald Fellowship</a> <br> <a href="/honors/292/000043163/">Spingarn Medal</a> 1960<br> <a href="/event/479/000159999/">Tonsillectomy</a> 1931<br> <a href="/group/506/000213864/">McCarthy Hearings</a> 1953<br> Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/262/000085007/">Gonorrhea</a>, <a href="/lists/089/000347045/">Tonsillitis</a><br> <p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Weary Blues</i> (<tt>1926</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Fine Clothes to the Jew</i> (<tt>1927</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Not Without Laughter</i> (<tt>1930</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Ways of White Folks</i> (<tt>1934</tt>, short stories)<br><i>The Big Sea</i> (<tt>1940</tt>, memoir)<br><i>Shakespeare in Harlem</i> (<tt>1941</tt>)<br><i>Montage of a Dream Deferred</i> (<tt>1951</tt>, poetry)<br><i>A Pictorial History of the Negro in America</i> (<tt>1956</tt>, nonfiction)<br><i>I Wonder as I Wander</i> (<tt>1956</tt>, memoir)<br><i>Ask Your Mama</i> (<tt>1961</tt>)<br><i>The Panther and the Lash</i> (<tt>1967</tt>, poetry, posthumous)<br><p> <b>Wrote plays:</b><br> <i>Mule Bone</i> (<tt>1931</tt>, with Zora Neale Hurston)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=32015"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=32015">Langston Hughes</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=32015" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>