| Langston Hughes  AKA James Mercer Langston Hughes
Born: 1-Feb-1902
Birthplace: Joplin, MO
Died: 22-May-1967
Location of death: New York City [1]
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Poet, Novelist, Playwright Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
[1] Polyclinic Hospital, New York City.
Father: James Hughes
Mother: Carolina Mercer Langston (b. 1873, m. 1899)
High School: Central High School, Cleveland, OH
University: Columbia University (attended 1921-2)
University: AB, Lincoln University Pennsylvania (1929)
Hollywood Anti-Fascist League
League of American Writers
Poetry Society of America
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
Guggenheim Fellowship
Rosenwald Fellowship
Spingarn Medal 1960
Tonsillectomy 1931
McCarthy Hearings 1953
Risk Factors: Gonorrhea, Tonsillitis
Author of books:
The Weary Blues (1926, poetry)
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927, poetry)
Not Without Laughter (1930, novel)
The Ways of White Folks (1934, short stories)
The Big Sea (1940, memoir)
Shakespeare in Harlem (1941)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951, poetry)
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (1956, nonfiction)
I Wonder as I Wander (1956, memoir)
Ask Your Mama (1961)
The Panther and the Lash (1967, poetry, posthumous)
Wrote plays:
Mule Bone (1931, with Zora Neale Hurston)
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