Best known for his poetry, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, plays, non-fiction works, and books for children. For more short stories and novels of his, please see: Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folks; Simple Speaks His Mind; Laughing to Keep from Crying; Simple Takes a Wife; The Sweet Flypaper of Life; Simple Stakes a Claim; Tambourines to Glory; The Best of Simple; Simple's Uncle Sam; Something in Common and Other Stories; and Short Stories of Langston Hughes
For other popular Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, see works by: Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
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