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The Author
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Langston Hughes
was a writer of short stories, novels, autobiography, and political
historical prose. His own life experiences served as a backdrop for
some of his fiction, and his short stories were enjoyed by many. He
sought to both entertain and educate. Langston Hughes was also a writer
of children's books. He worked both as sole author and often with his
friend, Arna Bontemps.
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| Not Without Laughter,
1930 |
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| Sweet Flypaper
of Life, photos
by Roy DeCarava, story by Langston Hughes, Simon and Schuster, 1955
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The Ways
of White Folks,
Knopf, first edition, 1934
A collection of short stories. |
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Hughes created a series of
short stories around a fictional character Jessie B. Semple, known
to his friends as Simple. Hughes first published these stories
or narratives between a somewhat stuffy narrator, and Simple,
an unsophisticated,
down-to-earth fellow in The Chicago Defender. Later,
Hughes incorporated the Simple character in short story format.
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| The Anvil: The Proletarian
Fiction Magazine,
May/June, 1935 |
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| The First Book of Negroes,
illustrated by Ursula Koering, 1952 |
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| A Japanese edition
of the children' story, Popo and Fifina, 1958. |
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| The First Book of Jazz,
illustrated by Cliff Roberts, 1955 |
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