Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues," which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. As a result of his poetry, Mr. Hughes received a scholarship at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where...
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Tambourines to Glory
eBook | 176 pages | Harlem Moon | Fiction
978-0-307-49821-2 (0-307-49821-2)
April 14, 2010 | $12.95
Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes’s breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons.
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up...
Written by Langston Hughes
eBook | 176 pages | Harlem Moon | Fiction
978-0-307-49821-2 (0-307-49821-2)
April 14, 2010 | $12.95
Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes’s breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons.
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Remember Me to Harlem
eBook | 400 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-42744-1 (0-307-42744-7)
December 18, 2007 | $18.95
These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship--and for...
eBook | 400 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-42744-1 (0-307-42744-7)
December 18, 2007 | $18.95
These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship--and for...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Hardcover | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-84421-1 (0-679-84421-X)
November 13, 2007 | $21.99
"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
The Dream Keeper, the great African-American writer Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children, includes some of his best loved works. It is being reissued in a handsome hardcover edition in celebration...
Hardcover | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-84421-1 (0-679-84421-X)
November 13, 2007 | $21.99
"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
The Dream Keeper, the great African-American writer Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children, includes some of his best loved works. It is being reissued in a handsome hardcover edition in celebration...
Also available as a
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Hardcover Library Binding | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Poetry
978-0-679-94421-8 (0-679-94421-4)
November 13, 2007 | $25.99
Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today...
Hardcover Library Binding | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Poetry
978-0-679-94421-8 (0-679-94421-4)
November 13, 2007 | $25.99
Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Tambourines to Glory
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Harlem Moon | Fiction
978-0-7679-2327-9 (0-7679-2327-8)
September 26, 2006 | $12.95
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox.
Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on...
Written by Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Harlem Moon | Fiction
978-0-7679-2327-9 (0-7679-2327-8)
September 26, 2006 | $12.95
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox.
Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on...
Also available as an
eBook.
Vintage Hughes
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American; Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-3402-4 (1-4000-3402-7)
January 6, 2004 | $14.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Arguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance...
Written by Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American; Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-3402-4 (1-4000-3402-7)
January 6, 2004 | $14.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Arguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance...
The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes
Abridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Poetry
978-0-553-71491-3 (0-553-71491-0)
March 26, 2002 | $29.95
THE VOICE OF THE POET
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book...
Abridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Poetry
978-0-553-71491-3 (0-553-71491-0)
March 26, 2002 | $29.95
THE VOICE OF THE POET
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book...
Remember Me to Harlem
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-375-72707-8 (0-375-72707-8)
February 5, 2002 | $23.00
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 maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-375-72707-8 (0-375-72707-8)
February 5, 2002 | $23.00
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 maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic...
Also available as an
eBook.
Hughes: Poems
Hardcover | 256 pages | Everyman's Library | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-40551-8 (0-375-40551-8)
March 23, 1999 | $15.50
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is...
Written by Langston Hughes
Hardcover | 256 pages | Everyman's Library | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-40551-8 (0-375-40551-8)
March 23, 1999 | $15.50
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is...
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Poetry
978-0-679-88347-0 (0-679-88347-9)
December 3, 1996 | $13.99
Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today...
Written by Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Poetry
978-0-679-88347-0 (0-679-88347-9)
December 3, 1996 | $13.99
Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
hardcover library binding.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 736 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American; Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-76408-3 (0-679-76408-9)
October 31, 1995 | $24.95
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is...
Trade Paperback | 736 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American; Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-76408-3 (0-679-76408-9)
October 31, 1995 | $24.95
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is...
The Panther & the Lash
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-73659-2 (0-679-73659-X)
February 4, 1992 | $14.95
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice is more pointed than ever...
Written by Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-73659-2 (0-679-73659-X)
February 4, 1992 | $14.95
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice is more pointed than ever...
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-72818-4 (0-679-72818-X)
September 12, 1990 | $18.95
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue...
Written by Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-72818-4 (0-679-72818-X)
September 12, 1990 | $18.95
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue...
The Ways of White Folks
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-72817-7 (0-679-72817-1)
September 12, 1990 | $17.95
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.
Written by Langston Hughes
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-72817-7 (0-679-72817-1)
September 12, 1990 | $17.95
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.
