His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. 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 tim

Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his influences, which helped him make him known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. 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. His life and work were very important for contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Unlike other important black poets of the period—Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to tell apart between his personal experience and the same experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their own cultur

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