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for “The Weary Blues,” which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. Hughes received his B.A. from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1929. In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by his alma mater; during his lifetime, he was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1935), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947). From 1926 until his death in 1967, Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. A cross-section of his work was published in 1958 as
The Langston Hughes Reader
; a
Selected Poems
first appeared in 1959, and a
Collected Poems
in 1994. Today, his many works and his contribution to American letters continue to be cherished and celebrated around the world.

ALSO BY LANGSTON HUGHES
    POETRY
    The Panther and the Lash: Poems for Our Times
(1967)
    Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz
(1961)
    Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
(1959)
    Montage of a Dream Deferred
(1951)
    One-Way Ticket
(1949)
    Fields of Wonder
(1947)
    Shakespeare in Harlem
(1942)
    Fine Clothes to the Jew
(1927)
    FICTION
    Something in Common and Other Stories
(1963)
    The Sweet Flypaper of Life
(1955) with Roy DeCarava (photographer)
    Laughing to Keep from Crying
(1952)
    The Ways of White Folks
(1934)
    Not Without Laughter
(1930)
    DRAMA
    Five Plays by Langston Hughes
(1963)
    HUMOR
    Simple’s Uncle Sam
(1965)
    The Best of Simple
(1961)
    Simple Stakes a Claim
(1957)
    Simple Takes a Wife
(1953)
    Simple Speaks His Mind
(1950)
    FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
    The First Book of Africa
(1960)
    The First Book of the West Indies
(1956)
    The First Book of Jazz
(1955)
    The First Book of Rhythms
(1954)
    The First Book of the Negroes
(1952)
    Pop and Fifina
(1932) with Arna Bontemps
    BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    Famous Negro Heroes of America
(1958)
    I Wonder as I Wander
(1956)
    Famous Negro Music Makers
(1955)
    Famous American Negroes
(1954)
    The Big Sea
(1940)
    ANTHOLOGY
    The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present
(1967)
    New Negro Poets: USA
(1964)
    An African Treasury: Articles / Essays / Stories / Poems by Black Africans
(1960)
    The Langston Hughes Reader
(1958)
    The Book of Negro Folklore
(1958) with Arna Bontemps
    Poetry of the Negro
(1949) with Arna Bontemps
    HISTORY
    Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment
(1967) with Milton Meltzer
    Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP
(1962)
    A Pictorial History of the Negro in America
(1956) with Milton Meltzer
    TRANSLATIONS
    Selected Poems by Gabriela Mistral
(1957)
    Cuba Libre: Poems by Nicolás Guillén
(1948)
    Masters of the Dew
(1947) with Mercer Cook. A translation of the novel
    Gouverneurs de la rosée
by Jacques Roumain