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Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 1 February 1901
- Died
- 22 May 1967
- Place of birth
- Joplin
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Hughes
- Father
- James Nathaniel Hughes
- Mother
- Carrie Langston
- Movement
- Harlem Renaissance, jazz poetry
- Field of work
- creative and professional writing, prose, poetry, theatre, opinion journalism, Harlem Renaissance, civil and political rights, civil rights
- Occupation
- poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, writer, journalist, children's writer, biographer, opinion journalist, theatre manager, librettist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Spingarn Medal, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, William E. Harmon Foundation award for distinguished achievement among Negroes, star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- described by source
- African American Dramatists, African American Authors, 1745-1945 (1st edition), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6, Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- has works in the collection
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- notable work
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- place of burial
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- relative
- Charles Henry Langston, Mary Sampson Leary
- represented by
- Harold Ober Associates
- start of work period
- 1926
- topic's main category
- Category:Langston Hughes
- writing language
- English
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