Selected letters of Langston Hughes / edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel ; with Christa Fratantoro.

"This unprecedented collection of Langston Hughes's letters is arranged by decades, with helpful interstitial material and notes throughout to guide us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: literary, personal, political, practical. His correspondents include such luminaries as Carl Van Vechte...

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Uniform Title:Correspondence. Selections
Main Author: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 (Author)
Other Authors: Rampersad, Arnold (Editor)
Roessel, David E. (David Ernest), 1954- (Editor)
Fratantoro, Christa (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2015]
Edition:First Edition.
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Physical Description:xxx, 442 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a We have tomorrow : 1921 to 1931 -- Let America be America again : 1931 to 1939 -- I do not need freedom when I'm dead : 1939 to 1949 -- The rumble of a dream deferred : 1950 to 1960 -- I heard the horn of plenty blowing : 1960 to 1970. 
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