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Volume I: 1902-1941
Oxford University Press
December 2005
Featuring: Langston Hughes
528 pages
ISBN: 0195146425
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston
Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold
Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of
his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and
prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic but dedicated
spirit that led him from Mexico to Africa and the Soviet
Union to Japan, and countless other stops around the globe.
Associating with political activists, patrons, and fellow
artists, and drawing inspiration from both Walt Whitman and
the vibrant Afro-American culture, Hughes soon became the
most original and revered of black poets. In the first
volume's Afterword, Rampersad looks back at the significant
early works Hughes produced, the genres he explored, and
offers a new perspective on Hughes's lasting literary
influence. Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout
the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at
Yale University's Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty
illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will
offer a new generation of readers entrance to the life and
mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists.
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