The big sea : an autobiography / Langston Hughes ; foreword by Amiri Baraka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Contributor:

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014, writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Classic reprint series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Hughes, Langston.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

African American poets--Biography.

African American poets.

Harlem Renaissance.

Poets, American--Biography.

Harlem (New York, N.Y)--Popular culture.

Intellectual life.

New York (State)--New York--Harlem.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

African American authors--20th century--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Harlem (New York, N.Y)--Popular culture.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered pages, 335 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Persea Books.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, 1986.

Summary:

Volume one of Hughes' autobiography tells of his early years--in Paris and Harlem.

Contents:

I. Twenty-One

II. Big Sea

III. Black Renaissance.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1963.

"Cover design by Loretta Li. Cover photo: Countee Cullen Papers, Amistad Research Center."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0938410334

9780938410331

OCLC:

13332362