Publisher's Synopsis
When Langston Hughes died in 1967, he was revered not only as one of the foremost Afro-American writers, but also as a world-renowned artist whose poems, plays, and stories had profoundly influenced writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. Written with characteristic grace and attention to detail, this book combines with Arnold Rampersad's first volume (1986) to offer a matchless panorama of life and culture in America and abroad during the first seventy years of this century.
