Langston Huges

to Carrie and James Nathaniel Huges. He lived in New Mexico, Missouri,

and Kansas. When his mother and Father separated, he moved to

Lawrence, Kansas with his grandmother. After not even a year with his

grandmother, he moved in with his mother and step-father in Lincoln

Illinois. There he went to a grammar school were he was elected class poet.

Later, after moving to Cleveland, Ohio he became editor of his high school, which he later graduated from.

In 1921 he entered Columbia University in New York. He

published many children’s poetry in A Brownie’s Book. From 1921 to

1924 Huges took on many jobs, including a cooks helper on a tramp

steamer and later a cook in Paris. By 1925 he had moved back with his

memory and the legacy of one of the greatest Harlem Renaissance writers

Huges received the Ainsfeld-Wolfe Award for the “Best book of the year

Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1929. While at Lincoln, yet

volume of poetry, enabled Hughes to attend Lincoln University in

Laughter). In 1930, he also traveled to Hatti, and won the Harmon award

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