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Article: Laurie F. Leach. Langston Hughes: A Biography.(Book review)
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- African American Review
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- June 22, 2006
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Laurie F. Leach. Langston Hughes: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2004. 176 pp. $29.95.
Laurie Leach's compact biography of Langston Hughes is part of a series designed for high schools and public libraries and is intended "specifically for student use" (ix). Lucidly written and solidly researched, it achieves its expressed purposes and will be a useful tool for high school students and faculty for many years to come.
Regarding Hughes as "the most prominent African American poet of the twentieth century" (xiii), Leach makes excellent use of previous biographical studies of Hughes by Arnold Rampersad and Faith Berry as well as a broad range of ...