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| Creator: | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 |
| Title: | Langston Hughes Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | circa 1937 |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | A group of typescript and mimeographed poems by the well-known African American poet and writer, with a two-page autobiography and bibliography. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
Langston Hughes was a well-known African-American poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, song lyricist, radio writer, translator, author of juvenile books, and lecturer. He attended Columbia University (1921-1922) and Lincoln University, A.B. (1929). In addition to his writing he was Madrid correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American, 1937; visiting professor in creative writing, Atlanta University, 1947; poet in residence, Laboratory School, University of Chicago, 1949. (Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.)
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Four typed pages include the poems "Elderly Race Leaders," "Pattern," "Moonlight Night: Carmel," and "Ballad of Ozie Powell." Among the long poems on eleven sheets of carbon copies are "Air Raid Over Harlem" and "Death in Harlem." The former, which seems to foreshadow the Watts riots, does not appear in Dickinson's list of Hughes' published poems. "Pattern" was later published under the title "Remembrance" and "Alabama Scene," which deals with racial violence, was later published under the title "Ku Klux." Two mimeographed pages contain a brief writer's bio and a list of publications up to 1934. Given by the author to Emanuel van Loggem in Paris, 1937. Hughes was in Europe as War Correspondent to Spain.
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Related Material
The Arna Wendell Bontemps Papers contain correspondence with Hughes and a number of typescripts of his essays and plays.
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Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Langston Hughes Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Bromer Booksellers, Boston.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: MRR
Date: 23 Jan 2006
Revision history: 23 Jan 2006 - EAD file created (MRR);
19 Jul 2006 - minor changes to subject headings (MRR);
21 Mar 2014 - corrected number of pages (MRC)
Inventory
| Autobiographical material | |||||||||||
| SC 156 | Autobiography - typescript (1 page) | ||||||||||
| SC 156 | Bibliography - typescript (1 page) | ||||||||||
| Poems | |||||||||||
| SC 156 | Various poems - typescripts and carbon copies (15 pages) | ||||||||||