Langston Hughes: A Biography

Author: Hughes, James Mercer Langston (1902 –1967) Milton Meltzer (1915- )Year: 1968Publisher: Thomas Y Crowell CoPlace: New YorkDescription:xiii+281 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") issued in beige with brown lettering to spine. 1st edition.The son of Carrie Langston Hughes (a teacher) and her husband, James Nathaniel Hughes, Langston Hughes was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes is of both African American and Native American descent. After abandoning his family and the later legal dissolution of the marriage, James Hughes left for Cuba, then Mexico, as a consequence of the enduring racism in the United States.[2] After the separation of his parents, young Langston was raised mainly by his grandmother, Mary Langston, as his mother sought employment. Through the black American oral tradition of storytelling, she would instill in the young Langston Hughes a sense of lasting racial pride. He spent most of childhood in Lawrence, Ka