One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes may be
best known as a poet but he was also a brilliant storyteller blending elements of blues and
jazz speech and song into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Perhaps more than any other
writer Langston Hughes made the white America of the 1920s and 1930s aware of the Black
culture thriving in its midst. Hughes's poetry and fiction works are messages from that America
sharply etched vignettes of its daily life cruelly accurate portrayals of Black and white
collisions. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid-free
paper with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon
markers European-style half-round spines and a full-color illustrated jacket.
