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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: Sep 1990
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 245
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 escapades, the racial indignities he suffered, his sardonic outlook on life, and the humor with which Hughes infused his story, won him innumerable fans in the many newspaper in which the tales appeared.