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10/14/2022

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
Prominent social activist during the Harlem Renaissance and writer of several short plays, novels and poetry, Langston Hughes was deeply committed to the cause of black people: their sufferings and culture. He is the inventor of ‘jazz poetry’ and won first prize for his poem, The Weary Blues (1925) in Opportunity magazine. His first novel, Not Without Laughter (1930) also earned him a Harmon Gold Medal for Literature.

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ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)
Anthropologist, folklorist, civil rights activist and author, Zora Neale Hurston is one of the leading African-American writers of the twentieth century. She is remembered most for her second novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Hurston travelled far and wide to conduct anthropological research and articulately penned down her findings.

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RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994)
Most acclaimed for his book, Invisible Man (1952) which ranked 19th in the Top 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century by the Modern Library Association and won the National Book Award, Ralph Ellison was a lecturer, critic, scholar and author. He wrote politically and socially motivated essays which were published in Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986) as well as short stories published in Flying Home (1996).

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