![]() ![]() His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. InI Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. Arnold Rampersad, author of the widely acclaimed biographyThe Life of Langston Hughes, is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and director of American Studies at Princeton University. He was perhaps best known as a poet and the creator of Simple, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays (several of them Broadway hits), and children's books, and he edited several anthologies. ![]() ![]() He graduated from Lincoln University in 1929 and was awarded an honorary Litt. Langston Hugheswas born in Joplin, Missouri, went to Cleveland, Ohio, lived for a number of years in Chicago, and long resided in New York City's Harlem. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. ![]() ![]()
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