Hughes, Langston

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1. A twentieth-century African-American author known for his poems about the black experience in the United States. He was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

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A famous line from one of his poems is “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” Lorraine Hansbury, a celebrated African-American playwright, named her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, after this line.

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And biographers had already established that James Hughes, Langston’s father, who had left the family shortly after his son’s birth, was living in Buffalo.

From New York Times

See Hughes, John M. C. Hughes, Everett C., 1607 Hughes, John M. C., 963 Hughes, Langston, 122- 123, 225- 226, 667, 753, 985, 1108, 1110- 1115, 1219, 1244, 1253- 1257, 1259- 1261, 1387 ed.,

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