Langston Hughes: Poet (Black Americans of achievement)
Biography, Literature biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Langston Hughes spent much of his childhood alone. His father moved abroad before he was born, and his mother left him often in her search for work. In 1920, upon his graduation from high school, Hughes went to see his… father in Mexico, where he had become quite wealthy. Hughes rejected his father's plan that he study engineering and determined to become a poet, writing his first published pieces that summer. Grades 5-8 and older. 1988.