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Short Biography of Langston Hughes
Date of Birth: Born on February 1, 1902
Place of Birth : Joplin, Missouri
Parents: Father - James Hughes
Mother:
Carrie Langston Hughes
Background Facts, Information & Ancestry :
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1902
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This timeline starts on
February 1 1902 when James Mercer Langston Hughes
was born in Joplin, Missouri, second child of Carrie
Langston Hughes and James Hughes
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1903-1907
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His parents separated and
Langston Hughes move home repeatedly staying with
relatives and friends |
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1907-1915
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Hughes lived with his
grandmother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston,
in Lawrence, Kansas, and briefly with his mother in
Topeka, Kansas. |
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1915-1920
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During this period he lives
with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, and in
Cleveland, Ohio where he attended high school where
he graduated on June 16, 1920 |
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1920-1921
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Langston Hughes lives with his
father in Toluca, Mexico |
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1924 |
Langston enrolls at Columbia
University in September study engineering as agreed
with is father but becomes involved with writers in
Harlem and publishes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
He drops out of Columbia University travels to
Africa, Holland, and Paris. In November 1924, Hughes
returned to the U. S. to live with his mother in
Washington, D.C.
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1925 |
Hughes wins the Opportunity
magazine poetry contest for "The Weary Blues"
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1926 |
The Weary Blues is published
by Alfred Knopf and Hughes enrolls in Lincoln
University, a HBCU in Chester County, Pennsylvania
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1927 |
Hughes second book of poems,
Fine Clothes to the Jew, is published by Alfred
Knopf
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1929 |
Hughes receives a B.A. degree
from Lincoln University |
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1930
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Hughes publishes his novel,
Not Without Laughter, The Dream Keeper and Other
Poems
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1932
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He goes to the Soviet Union to
make a film depicting the plight of many blacks
living in the United States
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1934
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The Ways of White Folks, a
collection of short stories, is published |
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1935 |
Hughes's play, "Mulatto,"
opens on Broadway |
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1937 |
Langston Hughes travels to
Spain as a correspondent for the Baltimore
Afro-American and other various African American
newspapers
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1941
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Hughes establishes his theatre
troupe in Los Angeles and publishes The Big Sea, his
first autobiography
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1943 |
Hughes begins writing columns
for the Chicago Defender. |
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1949 |
He spent three months at the
integrated University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
as a "Visiting Lecturer on Poetry"
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1950
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Simple Speaks His Mind, a
collection of short fiction, is published. |
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1951
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Hughes publishes Montage of a
Dream Deferred, a collection of poetry. |
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1956 |
I Wonder As I Wander, Hughes's
second autobiography, is published. |
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1960 |
The NAACP awardS Langston
Hughes the Spingarn Medal for distinguished
achievements by an African American
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1961
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Hughes was inducted into the
National Institute of Arts and Letters and publishes
Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz, a collection
of poetry
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1967 |
Hughes Died May 22, 1967 (aged
65) in New York, United States
Hughes' Panther and the Lash was posthumously
published
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1973 |
The first Langston Hughes
Medal was awarded by the City College of New York. |
