James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Occupation
- poet, novelist, playwright, essayist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 1, 1902, February 1, 1901
- Died
- May 22, 1967
