Male : Black Poet, Dramatist & Novelist

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Joplin, Missouri

Date of Birth : 1902 Date of Death : 1967 Age : 65

Pseudonyms : Simple

Other Work : Columnist on the "Chicago Defender" 1943-67 and the New York Post 1962-7

Education : Central HS, Cleveland, Columbia University & Lincoln University

1926-1930
The Weary Blues (1926 Knopf)
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
Not Without Laughter (1930 Knopf)
Offered in 1999 for £895
(Ed) Four Lincoln University Poets (1930)

1931-1940
Dear Lovely Death (1931)
The Negro Mother & Other Dramatic Recitations (1931)
The Dream Keeper & Other Poems (1932 Knopf)
Popo and Fifina : Children of Haiti (1932) - with Arna Bontemps
Scottsboro Limited : Four Poems and a Play in Verse (1932)
The Ways of White Folks (1934) - ss
Black Thunder (1935) - with Arna Bontemps
Mulatto (1936) - play
A New Song (1938)
The Big Sea : An Autobiography (1940)

1941-1950
Songs to the Dark Virgin (for Voice and Piano) (1941 G Shirmer NY) - music by Florence B Price
Selected Poems (1942)
Shakespeare in Harlem (1942 Knopf)
Freedom's Plow (1943 Musette Publishers, NY)
Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943)
Lament for Dark peoples and Other Poems (1944)
The Weary Blues (1945 Knopf)
(Trans) Jacques Roumain : Masters of the Dew (1947) - with Mercer Cook
Fields of Wonder (1947 Knopf) - 2500
(Trans) Nicolas Guillen : Cuba Libre (1948) - with Ben Frederic Carruthers
Troubled Island (1949 Leeds, NY) - Play
One-Way Ticket (1949)
(Ed) the Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949 - An Anthology (1949) - with Arna Bontemps
Simple Speaks His Mind (1950 Simon & Schuster)

1951-1955
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
(Trans) Federico Garcia Lorca : Gypsy Ballads (1951)
Laughing to Keep from crying (1952 Holt) - ss
The First Book of Negroes (1952) - Juvenile
Simple Takes a Wife (1953 NY)
The First Book of Rhythms (1954) - Juvenile
Famous American Negroes (1954) - Juvenile
(Ed) Lincoln University Poets (1954) - with Waring Guney & Bruce M Wright
The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955 S & S) - with Roy De Carava
Famous Negro Music-Makers (1955) - Juvenile
The First Book of Jazz (1955) - Juvenile

1956-1960
I Wonder as I Wander : An Autobiographical Journey (1956)
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (1956) - with Milton Meltzer
The First Book of the West Indies (1956) - Juvenile
Simple Stakes a Claim (1957 Rinehart)
(Trans) Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Tambourines to Glory (1958 John Day, NY)
The Langston Hughes Reader (1958 Braziller, NY)
(Ed) the Book of Negro Folklore (1958) - with Arna Bontemps
Famous Negro Heroes of America (1958) - Juvenile
Selected Poems (1959)
Simply Heavenly (1959) - Play. with music by David Martin
The First Book of Africa (1960) - Juvenile
(Ed) An African Treasury : Articles, Essays, Stories, Poems by Black Africans (1960 Crown, NY)

After 1961
The Best of Simple (1961)
Ask Your Mama : 12 Moods for Jazz (1961 Knopf)
Fight for Freedom (1962)
[About the NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]
Something in Common & Other Stories (1963)
(Ed) Poems from Black Africa (1963)
Five Plays (1963)
(Ed) New Negro Poets, USA (1964 Indiana UP)
Simple's Uncle Sam (1965 Hill & Wang, NY)
(Ed) The Book of Negro Humour (1966)
The Panther and the Lash : Poems of Our Times (1967)
(Ed) The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers - An Anthology from 1899 to the Present (1967)
Black Magic : A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment (1967) - with Milton Meltzer
The Backlash Blues (1967 Broadside Press, Detroit)
Black Misery (1969 Eriksson NY)
Don't You Turn Back : Poems (1969) - Edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Good Morning, Revolution : Uncollected Social Protest Writings (1973) - Edited by Faith Berry

READING
Donald C Dickinson : A Bio-Bibliography of Langston Hughes 1920-1967 (1967)
James A Emanuel : Langston Hughes (1967)
Milton Meltzer : Langston Hughes (1968)
Therman B O'Daniel : Langston Hughes - Black Genius : A Critical Evaluation (1971)
Richard K Barksdale : Langston Hughes - The Poet and His critics (1977)