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__**Langston Hughes boigraphy**__ For more than five decades, James Langston Hughes wrote poetry, fiction, and plays that were meant to capture the essence of the black experience in America. A prolific writer of rare versatility, he wrote for the men and women he saw struggling first for survival and then for equality from the 1920s through the 1960s. By the time of his graduation in 1929, he had published two volumes of verse, //The Weary Blues// and //Fine Clothes to the Jew//, that earned him reputation among the writers and artists of the African-American cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. He published his first novel, //Not Without Laughter//. Hughes' interest in music is evident from his first book of poetry. He took the blues and blues musicians as his subjects and incorporated blues lyrics into the structure of //The// //Weary Blues'// title poem. Over the course of his career, Hughes experimented with verse forms drawn from the lyric structures of the blues, bebop, progressive jazz, and gospel. He regarded music as the most representative element of black culture; the body of his poetry traces its evolution. Hughes was an important voice of racial protest, as well as black affirmation. His politics evolved as times changed, but he held fast to a belief in the black popular imagination. The late 1930s saw the production of a host of Hughes' plays, including most prominently, //Mulatto,// a tragedy about interbreeding among races, which ran on Broadway in 1935. Theatre was founded by Hughes'. 

__**Books and Poems that he wrote**__-//Dear Lovely Death,// //Fields of Wonder,// //Freedom's Plow,// //Montage of a Dream Deferred,// //One-Way Ticket,// //Scottsboro Limited//

1. The topics and themes were about Political Issues, Religion, and Racial Discrimination. They were also about emotion, life, destiny, and hope.

2. The Harlem Renaissance is one of the greatest literary moments that is remembered because there were so many black men and women who had a very unique talent for writing and so they wrote about how their life is like, what is like to be black, and what they wish that their life would be like. It was a very moving time.