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Langston Hughes

1902 - 1967

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James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."Growing up in a series of Midwestern towns, Hughes became a prolific writer at an early age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Langston Hughes has received more than 6,726,862 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Langston Hughes is the 1,680th most popular writer (up from 1,771st in 2019), the 2,195th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,217th in 2019) and the 200th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Langston Hughes ranks 1,680 out of 5,755Before him are Liu Cixin, Maria Gripe, Acusilaus, Alexander Polyhistor, Marin Držić, and Camilla Läckberg. After him are Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Edmond François Valentin About, José de Espronceda, Ibn al-Khatib, Dominique Venner, and Juan Goytisolo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Langston Hughes ranks 82Before him are Norma Shearer, Ralph Richardson, Maurice Duruflé, Alfredo Binda, Christian de Castries, and Gianpiero Combi. After him are Richard Rodgers, Albert Bormann, Lyubov Orlova, Bruno Streckenbach, Toyen, and Léon M'ba. Among people deceased in 1967, Langston Hughes ranks 76Before him are Basil Rathbone, George Kelly, Marcel Aymé, Walter A. Shewhart, Stanisław Sosabowski, and Walter Weiß. After him are Léon M'ba, Joseph Boxhall, Martine Carol, Abdel Hakim Amer, David Burliuk, and Hans Ledwinka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Langston Hughes ranks 2,195 out of 18,182Before him are King C. Gillette (1855), Moondog (1916), The Undertaker (1965), Edward Zwick (1952), Victor Mature (1913), and Karl Malone (1963). After him are Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Richard Rodgers (1902), Edward Witten (1951), Samuel Fuller (1912), Charles Whitman (1941), and David Baltimore (1938).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Langston Hughes ranks 200Before him are Jane Jacobs (1916), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Eric Carle (1929), Terry Brooks (1944), E. E. Cummings (1894), and Richard Brautigan (1935). After him are Voltairine de Cleyre (1866), Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Frank McCourt (1930), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), E. Howard Hunt (1918), and Patricia Cornwell (1956).