AKA James Mercer Langston Hughes

Born: 1-Feb-1902
Birthplace: Joplin, MO
Died: 22-May-1967
Location of death: New York City [1]
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Remains: Cremated

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Poet, Novelist, Playwright

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Negro Speaks of Rivers

    High School: Central High School, Cleveland, OH
    University: Columbia University (attended 1921-2)
    University: AB, Lincoln University Pennsylvania (1929)

    Guggenheim Fellowship
    Rosenwald Fellowship
    Spingarn Medal 1960
    Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
    Poetry Society of America
    Risk Factors: Gonorrhea, Prostate Cancer

Author of books:
The Weary Blues (1926, poetry)
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927, poetry)
Not Without Laughter (1930, novel)
The Ways of White Folks (1934, short stories)
The Big Sea (1940, memoir)
Shakespeare in Harlem (1941)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951, poetry)
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (1956, nonfiction)
I Wonder as I Wander (1956, memoir)
Ask Your Mama (1961)
The Panther and the Lash (1967, poetry, posthumous)

Wrote plays:
Mule Bone (1931, with Zora Neale Hurston)

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