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