Though his poetry was given widespread attention due a meeting with Vatchel Lindsay, his extensive prose works include stories about Jesse B. Semple, "The Ways of White Folk," and "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." He also wrote a memoir about his move to New York in The Big Sea and a semi-autobiographical novel about his childhood in Kansas in Not Without Laughter. Meanwhile, his poetry collections include The Panther and the Lash and The Weary Blues. For ten points, name this American poet of "The Negro Speak
Though his poetry was given widespread attention due a meeting with Vatchel Lindsay, his extensive prose works include stories about Jesse B. Semple, "The Ways of White Folk," and "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." He also wrote a memoir about his move to New York in The Big Sea and a semi-autobiographical novel about his childhood in Kansas in Not Without Laughter. Meanwhile, his poetry collections include The Panther and the Lash and The Weary Blues. For ten points, name this American poet of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "A Dream Deferred."
Though his poetry was given widespread attention due a meeting with Vatchel Lindsay, his extensive prose works include stories about Jesse B. Semple, "The Ways of White Folk," and "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain."
Langston {Hughes}