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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions Celebrating The Langston Hughes Centennial (1902 - 2002)From February 1, 2002 through January 31, 2003
February 1, 2002, marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Langston Hughes, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. Hughes first gained international renown as "the poet laureate of the Negro" during the Harlem Renaissance. By his death in 1967, he had published sixteen books of poetry, two novels, seven collections of short stories, two autobiographies, nine children's books, and five works of nonfiction, including pictorial histories of black America and blacks in the performing arts. The Book of Negro Humor and The Book of Negro Folklore are among the nine anthologies of poetry, folklore, short fiction, and humor that he edited. His translations of works by Jacques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, and Federico García Lorca introduced these Haitian, Cuban, and Spanish writers to English-speaking audiences. Some thirty plays, as well as radio, television, film scripts and opera librettos are included in his oeuvre. Hundreds of his poems have been set to music. |
