Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific ... His parents were separated, and his dad lived in Mexico. When an 18-year-old Hughes visited and told him of his dream of being a writer, he refused ...

Poet and author Langston Hughes speaks before the ... Tuttle said the 35 pages of Hughes’ testimony highlighted some old questions. “There are elements of his identity that people are vague ...

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...