The Life of Langston Hughes

by Arnold Rampersad

This two-volume biography has been universally acclaimed as the definitive life of the leading light of the Harlem Renaissance.

Hardcover

First published July 3, 1996

About the author

Arnold Rampersad is a biographer, literary critic, and academic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965. The first volume (1986) of his Life of Langston Hughes was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and his Ralph Ellison: A Biography was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award.

Rampersad is currently Professor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. He was Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities from January 2004 to August 2006.