The Big Sea
Book Details
| Title: | The Big Sea | ||||||||
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| Published: | 1940 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Hill and Wang | ||||||||
| Tags: | autobiography, memoir, non-fiction, poetry | ||||||||
| Description: | Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in night clubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet—at the center of the “Harlem Renaissance.”—Goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 3,153 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 200  |
Author Bio for Hughes, Langston
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901– May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."
Hughes, who claimed Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.
Sources: poets.org; Wikipedia
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