The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

February 1, 2002 marks the birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the event, Arnold Rampersad will contribute a new afterword to volume 2 of this definitive biographical set which begins in the same setting where volume 1 left off: in Harlem and taking the community as the source of his insperation. It shows him rethinking his view of art and radicalism, tracing his burgeoning career and exploring his relationship with younger, more millitant writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka. By his death in 1967, HUghes was revered not only as dean of Afro-American writers but also as a world renowned artist whos poems, plays and stories had profoundly influenced writers in Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere.