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Langston Hughes
Books
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Not Without Laughter- Novel
Published in 1930, Hughes first novel, and major work of prose. Focuses on Sandy's "awakening to the sad and the beautiful realities of black life in Kansas"
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The Big Sea
An Autobiography about Hughes coming of age in the early 1920s and the memorable years he spent in Harlem and Paris.
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First Book of Negros
The first title about a group of people that focused on a race rather than a nationality or geographic region.
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