Authors - Biography, African American Poetry, African American Writers - Biography
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Overview
-- Elementary reading level biographies of inspiring African Americans.-- Will satisfy the need for younger biographies written with simple text.
-- Each book contains a table of contents, a glossary, an index, and comfortably sized type.
Simple text and illustrations describe the life of the Harlem poet whose work gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
Editorials
Children's Literature
Originally published in 1992, this biography has been updated by the McKissacks who have revisited the life of Langston Hughes. Readers learn about his father's desertion of the family when after studying law and learning that African Americans could not practice in Oklahoma; he went to Mexico where he felt better opportunities existed. Langston and his mother struggled to make ends meet and Langston spent many years with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. He learned about great African-American heroes. In the meantime, Langston's father had become fairly wealthy in Mexico and offered to pay for Langston's education at Columbia, but Langston really didn't enjoy college. Harlem and the African-American community were a bigger draw. In 1925 he was "discovered" and the next year he won a prize for his first book of poems. He never stopped writing and died at the age of 65. Even today people are rediscovering and enjoying his poems. This book has a timeline, words to know section, and a list of references that are reasonably current as well as several Internet addresses. There is an index.—Marilyn Courtot
Book Details
Published
October 1, 1992
Publisher
Hillside, N.J., U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers, c1992.
Pages
32
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780894903151