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Langston Hughes
James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902. He only
lived there for a couple of months until he moved to Central Plains, Kansas.
Where he started to practically raise himself so in one form or another he
grew up mother and fatherless.
In 1915 he moved from Kansas to Lincoln, Illinois where he wrote
"Chicago Poems" and "To Youth" which were written in the time frame of
1916-1918. Then he went traveling the world and came back after the war
on September 4, 1921 and when he came back to New York he sat down his
bags in Harlem and looked at what he called "his people". By now "The
Negro Speaks of River" has been published and America loves it. He tells
his family that he was just sitting on a train on his way to St. Louis when he
started scribbling on a envelope he took out of his pocket. During this time
he also wrote a poem called "Simple John" and a poem called "Never Far
Away" was the nurturing thought of death, as in "Poem".......

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