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Jazz Age Poet: A Story about Langston Hughes

Age 9-14
Grade 3-8

Veda Boyd Jones, Barbara Kiwak

Jazz Age Poet: A Story about Langston Hughes

Paperback (LernerClassroom Jan. 1, 2006)

The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children’s books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed financially, Hughes never gave up trying to be a better writer, and a better man.

Series
Creative Minds Biographies
ISBN
0822530929 / 9780822530923
Pages
64
Weight
4.2 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.2 in.

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