p A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own commentary and reflections, on CD for the first time! Collection includes: One Way Ticket • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Puzzled •...

Hughes’s most popular and beloved fictional creation was Jesse B. Semple, a Harlem man from Virginia known as "simple' who was based on a conversation Hughes had with a defense-plant worker in 1943. Simple’s romantic ...

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil Wa...

Our greatest African American poet’s award-winning first novel, about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brillian...

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 much of his life he mainta...

Sometimes called the Poet Laureate of Black America, Langston Hughes was also an accomplished writer of fiction, with a novel and several collections of stories to his credit. This collection brings together nearly 50 of Hughes's best...

Hughes’s most popular and beloved fictional creation was Jesse B. Semple, a Harlem man from Virginia known as "simple' who was based on a conversation Hughes had with a defense-plant worker in 1943. Simple’s romantic ...

Determined to escape the poverty of public assistance, Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed, neighbors living in adjoining tenement apartments, are inspired to start a church in the heart of Harlem, using Laura’s talents for the l...

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