Not So Simple: The Simple Stories by Langston Hughes Book

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction: "Day-after-Day Heroism"	1
1	The Simple Setting: The 1940s in the Chicago Defender	21
2	The "Here to Yonder" Column: Hughes in Two Voices	39
3	Simple Comes to Life	67
4	Negotiations: Finding a Publisher for Simple	97
5	Readings and Revisions	117
6	Simple Takes a Wife - and Broadway	139
7	Simple Claims the Best	167
8	Simple's Last Moves	189
	Conclusion: Simple's Curtain Call	213
	Appendix A: "Here to Yonder" Columns, 1942-1949	219
	Appendix B: Contents of Simple Speaks His Mind	243
	Bibliography	245
	Index	253