1. Langston Hughes
His grandmother raised him until he was thirteen, when he then moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband. The search for employment made his mother and stepfather, Homer Clark, to move many times. Hughes moved between the households of his grandmother, his mother and other close family members. ... He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his work with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in Montage of a Dream Deferred. ... He left an enormous body of work that included poems, short stories, novels,...
- Word Count: 534
- Approx Pages: 2
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School