Jazz Age Poet: A Story About Langston Hughes

by Veda Boyd Jones, Barbara Kiwak (Illustrator)

Written in a story format, an episodic biography follows the life and career of the award-winning author and poet who combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Simultaneous.

Genres: Biography

64 pages, Library Binding

First published July 11, 2005

About the author

Veda Boyd Jones enjoys the challenge of writing for diverse readers. She is the author of forty-two books: five children's historical novels, twenty-one children's biographies, three children's nonfiction books, three picture books, nine romance novels, and a coloring book. Other published works include over 400 articles and stories in children's and adult magazines (Cricket, Highlights, Humpty Dumpty, The Writer, Writer's Digest, Woman's World, etc.), articles in reference books, and five romance novellas. Veda has taught writing at Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, and currently teaches for the Institute of Children's Literature. She and her husband, Jimmie, an architect, have three sons, Landon, Morgan, and Marshall.

Veda is a previous winner of the Writer's Digest Writing Competition in the articles division for a children's profile of Rachel Carson. Her romance novel Callie's Mountain was voted best contemporary in the annual readers' poll by Heartsong Presents a few years ago. Among her awards through the years from the Missouri Writer's Guild are Best Magazine Article, Best Historical Article, Best Adult Fiction, Best Children's Fiction, Best Children's Book, and Best Romance Novel.


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Reviews

[Summer Norton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Summary: This book gives a detailed description of Langston Hughes life form birth to death. His life struggles, experiences, and accomplishments are described.
Evaluation: This book is a good source of research for finding information on Lanston Hughes in an easy to read fashion. The book gives great discriptions of his early life, mid life, and his late life. Students will truly understand Lanston's struggles and his main goal, which is to represent the African American voice in different forms of art.
Teacher Tip: I would use this book to help students learn about Langston Hughes and to help connect him to the 1920's culture. According to the 5th grade standard, students are to learn about four other historical figures that affected the 1920s culture in the United States. This book would be used by the students that researched Langston Hughes for their project and present their findings to the class.

[Kisha Clanton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading this inspired me to keep writing and not give up. This was the inspiration I needed and I couldn’t have read a better book. He was destined and continued to do what he could when it came to his writing. He never got discouraged no matter what he faced in life he just went harder. It was a quick read but it was motivational for me.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

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