| Langston Hughes  AKA James Mercer Langston Hughes
Born: 1-Feb-1902
Birthplace: Joplin, MO
Died: 22-May-1967
Location of death: Polyclinic Hospital, New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Poet, Novelist, Playwright Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Negro Speaks of Rivers Father: James Hughes
Mother: Carolina Mercer Langston (b. 1873, m. 1899)
High School: Central High School, Cleveland, OH
University: Columbia University (attended 1921-2)
University: AB, Lincoln University Pennsylvania (1929)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Rosenwald Fellowship
Spingarn Medal 1960
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
Poetry Society of America
Risk Factors: Gonorrhea, Prostate Cancer
Author of books:
The Weary Blues (1926, poetry)
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927, poetry)
Not Without Laughter (1930, novel)
The Ways of White Folks (1934, short stories)
The Big Sea (1940, memoir)
Shakespeare in Harlem (1941)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951, poetry)
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (1956, nonfiction)
I Wonder as I Wander (1956, memoir)
Ask Your Mama (1961)
The Panther and the Lash (1967, poetry, posthumous)
Wrote plays:
Mule Bone (1931, with Zora Neale Hurston)
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