Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks, 1956 October 4.

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Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks, 1956 October 4.

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Hughes thanks Brooks for her note and book of poems, comments on the publication ofmn "I wonder as I wander," confesses he doesn't know anything about a Hollywood picture, sends regards to her family, states he will never forget a party she gave and adds "I am just about the only living Negro writer who still lives in the heart of Harlem." With envelope addressed to Mrs. Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely.

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

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African American poet and novelist, who was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. From the description of Of Robert Frost / Gwendolyn Brooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79334638 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 17, 1917 and moved shortly after her birth to Chicago's South Side, where she lived until her death. She authored more than twenty books of poetry, beginning with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), follow...