An essay on Hughes's travels and literary reputation, a bibliography of his writings translated into Spanish, poems and prose pieces written for black journals of the thirties, and four Spanish-language articles on Hughes reveal the impact of the Hispanic world on his life and works
Through poetry, prose, and drama, American writer James Langston Hughes made important contributions to the Harlem renaissance; his best-known works include Weary Blues (1926) and The Ways of White Folks (1934).
People best know this social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist James Mercer Langston Hughes, one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry, for his famous written work about the period, when "Harlem was in vogue."