The Short Stories of Langston Hughes -- Langston Hughes, Paperback

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes

This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.

Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 08/15/1997
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.60w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780809016037

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/31/1997 pg. 20
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97
Publishers Weekly 07/07/1997

About the Author

Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, was educated at Lincoln University, and lived for most of his life in New York City. He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays, and children's books. Among his works are two volumes of memoirs, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, and two collections of Simple stories, The Best of Simple and The Return of Simple.

Akiba Sullivan Harper is a professor of English at Spelman College and the editor of The Return of Simple.

Arnold Rampersad, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University, is the author of The Life of Langston Hughes and editor of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes.