No, he isn't. There isn't a "father" of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughs was just one of the luminaries of that period, along with such greats as Countee Cullen, Rudolph Fisher, Zora Neale, Claude McKay, etc.
All these artists helped make the Harlem Renaissance what it was, and all were contemporaries of each other.
However, Langston Hugh was influenced by Claude McKay, who wrote "If We Must Die" which was published 1919, two years before Hughs arrived in New York City.
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Langston Hughes was bright, talented, well traveled, and possessed the ability to capture scenes in his mind, that he would later vividly portray on paper. Langston came from a prominent Black middle class family. His maternal grandfather had been one of John Brown's raiders at the raid on Harper's Ferry. After graduating high school in Cleveland, Ohio, Hughes went to live with his father in Mexico. The relationship quickly deteriorated, and Langston headed for Harlem, New York. He arrived at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, spent a year at Columbia University and proceeded to become the era's most renowned poet.
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The song "Live Your Creed" was written by Don Black.
When the Harlem Renaissance came to end many of the cultural aspects and ideals of the era continued to live on and resurface in other formats.
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Langston was born February 1, 1902. He died of prostate cancer on May 22, 1967. His father was James Nathaniel Hughes and his mother was Caroline Langston. His parents divorced when he was a young child and left him to live with his grandmother. He was a poet, playwright, and novelist. In May 1925, his first book "The Weary Blues," won first prize in poetry in a major literary contest ran by Opportunity, the magazine of the Urban League.Hope this helps.he was blacksmartan authorliked jazzwon alot of awards
In Langston Hughes's short story Gumption the sentence 'You can't live on gumption' I said trying to be practical is an example of first person narration.
Langston Hughes lived for about 65 five years. i got that answer by subtracting 1967 ( from when he died) and 1902( from when he was born). so that is how i got the answer.Langston Hughes lived for about 65 five years. i got that answer by subtracting 1967 ( from when he died) and 1902( from when he was born). so that is how i got the answer.
Leaving Columbia in 1922, Hughes spent the next three years in a succession of menial jobs. But he also traveled abroad. He worked on a freighter down the west coast of Africa and lived for several months in Paris before returning to the United States late in 1924. By this time, he was well known in African American literary circles as a gifted young poet.