Langston Hughes: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies Series) Book

	Series Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	Timeline	xv
Chapter 1	Lonely Boy	1
Chapter 2	Class Poet	7
Chapter 3	The Lure of Harlem	15
Chapter 4	At Sea	21
Chapter 5	European Adventure	25
Chapter 6	"Trying to Catch a Jazz Rhythm"	29
Chapter 7	A Rising Negro Artist	35
Chapter 8	Park Avenue Godmother	41
Chapter 9	The Mule Bone of Contention	49
Chapter 10	A Turn toward Socialism	61
Chapter 11	Film Project in Moscow	71
Chapter 12	Soviet Journey	77
Chapter 13	Uneasy in Carmel	85
Chapter 14	Adrift	93
Chapter 15	Under Fire	99
Chapter 16	Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow	109
Chapter 17	"Red-Tinged Poet"	117
Chapter 18	"Fooling around with the Theatre"	125
Chapter 19	Facing Down McCarthy	131
Chapter 20	Hughes and the Freedom Movement	139
Chapter 21	Hughes's Final Years	149
	Abbreviations for Texts Cited	157
	Selected Bibliography	159
	Index	165