Author:James Mercer Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes
(1901–1967)

Langston Hughes

Works

Poetry

Collections of poetry

• The Weary Blues (1926)
• Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
• Dear Lovely Death (1931)
• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R255268
• Scottsboro Limited (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R243260
• Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2038 due to Renewal R462530
• Freedom's Plow (1943)
• Fields of Wonder (1947)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2043 due to Renewal R585084
• One-Way Ticket (1949)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2045 due to Renewal R635012
• Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2047 due to Renewal RE023537
• Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2057 due to Renewal RE427829
• The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967)

Individual poems

• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)
• "I, Too" (1926)
• "Elevator Boy" (1926)
• "Railroad Avenue" (1926)
• In Caroling Dusk (1927), edited by Countee Cullen

  "I, Too"

  "Prayer"

  "Song for a Dark Girl"

  "Homesick Blues"

  "Fantasy in Purple"

  "Dream Variation"

  "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

  "Poem"

  "Suicide's Note"

  "Mother to Son"

  "A House in Taos"

• "God to Hungry Child" in Poems for Workers: An Anthology (1928)

As translator

• Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (1959)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2054 due to Renewal RE265217

Drama

• Mule Bone (1931) with Zora Neale Hurston
• Little Ham (1935)
• Mulatto (1935)
• Soul Gone Home (1937)
• Don't You Want to Be Free? (1938)
• Street Scene, lyrics (1946), opera with music by Kurt Weill and libretto by Elmer Rice
• Simply Heavenly (1957)
• Tambourines to Glory (1958)
• Black Nativity (1961)
• Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963), edited by Webster Smalley
• The Political Plays of Langston Hughes (2000), with an Introduction by Susan Duffy
• Collected Works of Langston Hughes vol. 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move (2000), edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders

Fiction

• The Langston Hughes Reader (1958)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2054 due to Renewal RE314543

Children's books

• Popo and Fifina (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R258127, with Arna Bontemps
• The First Book of Negroes (1952)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048 due to Renewal RE071019
• The First Book of Jazz (1954)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2050 due to Renewal RE183458
• The First Book of Rhythms (1954)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2050 due to Renewal RE138127
• Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer (1954), with Steven C. Tracy
• The First Book of the West Indies (1956)
• First Book of Africa (1964)

Novels

• Not Without Laughter (1930)

Short story collections

• The Ways of White Folks (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R287123
• Simple Speaks His Mind (1950)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2046 due to Renewal RE004536
• Laughing to Keep From Crying (1952)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048 due to Renewal RE071029
• Simple Takes a Wife (1953)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2049 due to Renewal RE098959
• Simple Stakes a Claim (1957)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2053 due to Renewal RE265214
• Something in Common and Other Stories (1963)
• Simple's Uncle Sam (1965)

Nonfiction

• The Big Sea (1940)
• Famous American Negroes (1954)
• I Wonder as I Wander (1956)
• Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes (1973), edited by Faith Berry

Works about Hughes

• "Langston Hughes" by Countee Cullen, in Caroling Dusk (1927), edited by Countee Cullen

Copyright

• The Estate of Langston Hughes are active protectors of the intellectual property of his works. They have been gracious enough to allow a few sites to release a few poems by Langston Hughes. These sites are listed on the Talk page.