The Life of Langston Hughes

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II
    By Arnold Rampersad

    On May 22, Dr. Julian Bennett Hyman, an experienced internist, declared Langston “critically ill.” His potassium level was now dangerously high (high or low potassium can cause severe cardiac dysfunction).

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World
    By Arnold Rampersad

    ... Robbins's ] The Carpetbaggers one better on sex in bed and out , left and right , plus a description of a latrine with all the little - boy words reproduced in the telling . ” In the same letter , Langston linked what he saw as ...

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: 1941-1967, I dream a world
    By Arnold Rampersad

    Privately to Ama Bontemps , he described Baldwin as aiming for a best - seller in " trying to out - Henry Henry Miller in the use of bad BAD bad words , or run ( Harold Robbins's ] ...

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World
    By Arnold Rampersad

    If you could sit unmoved by the gospel singer Dorothy Drake, the Post warned, “you'd better See an undertaker.” But the star of the production was young Gilbert Price, acclaimed especially for his singing of “Freedom Land,” for which ...

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World
    By Arnold Rampersad

    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 ...

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I
    By Arnold Rampersad

    A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941, I, too, sing America
    By Arnold Rampersad

    A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

  • The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I
    By Arnold Rampersad

    Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale Universitys Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new ...

  • The Life of Langston Hughes
    By Arnold Rampersad

    Arnold Rampersad traces the nomadic and yet dedicated spirit that led Hughes to Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan, as well as all over the United States, while still a young man.