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Article: The life of Langston Hughes, volume I, 1902-1941.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- January 12, 1987
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The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I, 1902-1941
THE CAREER OF Langston Hughes was the antithesis ofStevens'--checkered and dramatic. The black poet nonetheless developed a similar elusiveness about his private thoughts and feelings. Arnold Rampersad, whose The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I, 1902-1941 (Oxford, 448 pp., $22.95) bears the subtitle I, Too, Sing America, is a less obtrusive biographer than Richardson. His immensely readable book allows many of the ups and downs of Hughes' existence to speak for themselves--with eloquence. You come to feel that had Langston Hughes not lived, Richard Wright might have invented him to demonstrate the ambivalence of ...