Hughes, Langston
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| Birthname | Hughes, James Mercer Langston | ||
| born on | 1 February 1902 | ||
| Place | Joplin MO, USA, 37n05, 94w30 | ||
| Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   11°58'   or 
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Biography
American writer, an important figure in Harlem renaissance. A poet, he wrote in dialect using blues and jazz rhythms about black issues.
Hughes died 5/22/1967, New York, NY.
Events
- Death, Cause unspecified 22 May 1967 at 12:00 noon in New York, NY (Age 65)
Source Notes
Steinbrecher quotes the Armond Rampersad biography, 1986, for "near midnight."
LMR quotes "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," Arnold Rampersad, editor and David Roessel, associate editor, Alfred A. Knopf, publisher, 1994. The chronology, pp.8 to 20, would serve as an excellent aid to rectification but it contains no reference or allusion to a time of birth. On p.8, it reads, "1902 Born James Langston Hughes, February 1, Joplin, Missouri, to James Nathaniel Hughes, who was a stenographer with a mining company, and Carrie Mercer Langston Hughes, who wrote verse and acted in amateur theatricals."
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Traits : Body : Race (Black)
