- Fiction, African American boys, City and town life, Fiction, family life
This is a coming of age story of an African-American boy in a small Kansas town.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Langston Hughes
- First published
- 1930
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Westtvaco Corporation, Canongate Books, A.A. Knopf
- Editions
- 47
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780848810559
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Writer, editor, lecturer Langston Hughes achieved fame as a poet during the burgeoning of the arts known as the Harlem Renaissance, but those who label him "a Harlem Renaissance poet" have restricted his fame to only one genre and decade. In addition to his work as a poet, Hughes was a novelist, columnist, playwright, and essayist, and though he is most closely associated with Harlem, his world travels influenced his writing in a profound way. Langston Hughes followed the example of Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of his early poetic influences, to become the second African American to earn a living as a writer. His long and distinguished career produced volumes of dive
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