An English teacher introduced him to poets such as Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman, and these became Hughes's earliest influences. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an unhappy year. Langston was very fascinated and influenced by Harlem's people and the life itself, there. The Big Sea, the first volume of his autobiography, provided "such a crucial first person account of the era" that much of what we know about the Harlem Renaissance we know from Hughes's point of view...
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The Big Sea, the first volume of his autobiography, provided "such a crucial first person account of the era" that much of what we know about the Harlem Renaissance we know from Hughes's point of view. One of his first poems that were affected by Harlem's life, where he lived attending Columbia University, was called The Weary Blues, which Hughes said was about "a piano player [he] heard in Harlem...
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Langston Hughes Examples of his work are Not Without Laughter (1930), a novel; The Ways of White Folks (1934), a collection of short stories; The Big Sea (1940), an autobiography; The Langston Hughes Reader (1958); The Best of Simple (1961); and Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963)...	2 / 281
Langston Hughes Most of Hughes's sketches about Simple have no plot. Simple expresses his opinions about current issues. He is outspoken, arousing, and impulsive. Hughes used Simple to show what an intelligent, but uneducated, proud black man might say if given the chance...	1 / 215
Langston Hughes Biography Her first husband was killed at Harper's Ferry while fighting with John Brown; her second husband, Hughes' grandfather, was a prominent politician in Kansas during the Reconstruction period...	2 / 312
langston hughes No matter who you are or where you come from. You have a right to sit at the table in America. All men where created equal and promised liberty and justice for all, so the constitution says...	2 / 327