Langston Hughes was an African American writer. His early life consisted of his parents getting a divorce. He also was raised by his grandmother, and she died when he was only thirteen. After this, he moved in with his mother and her new husband. This is when he really started writing his poetry and writings. When he graduated from high school he moved with father, who was in Mexico, and he stayed there for a year. He finally came back to the United States after a year with his father.
HISTORICAL EVENTS
Early Life: Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He is known as a poem and short story writer. He was an African American poet, who used jazz rhythms to tell about the life of an urban African American.
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Things like where he grew up, and his surroundings when he was a kid. The fact that his parents split up and his dad moved to Mexico. His mom moved around a lot when his parents split up, and he was really raised by his grandmother until she died.
People That Influenced Hughes: Some that influenced Langston Hughes to write poetry were two poets that were introduced to him by his high school teacher. Their names were Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. Carl Sandburg was a poet, writer, and editor who won three pulitzer prizes. One for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. He also fought in the Spanish-American War. Now, Walt Whitman was considered to be one of the most influential poets to live. He published the collection of, Leaves of Grass, and now it has become a landmark in American Literature.
Education: After his graduation of high school, he did not go to college right away. He moved down to Mexico with his father for a couple years. He soon got into Columbia University and did a couple years there before he got a scholarship to Lincoln University. This led to him becoming a better, stronger,