Langston Hughes

Born: February 1, 1902, Joplin, Missouri, United States

Died: May 22, 1967 (Age 65) New York

Occupation: Poet, Columnist, Dramatistic , essayist , Novelist

Ethnicity : African American, White American , Native American 

Langston Hughes was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, like many black writers and artists of his time, was drawn to the promise of communism as an alternative to a segregated america. Many of his lesser-known political writings have been collected in two volumes published by the university of Missouri press and reflect his attraction to communism