He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. From 1926 until his death in 1967, Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. by his alma mater during his lifetime, he was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1935), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947). In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D. from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1929. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry from the magazine Opportunity for “The Weary Blues,” which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. His first poem published in a nationally known magazine was “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” which appeared in Crisis in 1921. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. LANGSTON HUGHES was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902.
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