![]() ![]() It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. ![]() His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. Covers show some wear and some spotting in a very good dust jacket. Upon the death of her husband, Joel Spingarn, in 1939, Amy Spingarn was elected to finish out his term on the NAACP Board of Directors. ![]() ![]() Most sincerely, Langston New York 1957." The recipient, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a philanthropist, poet, and artist known especially for her paintings of prominent African-American cultural figures. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed especially for Amy Spingarn, another "life" of mine, for a friend who has helped to make life of ever joyous and cultural interest. Because his father emigrated to Mexico and his mother was often away, Hughes was brought up in Lawrence, Kansas, by his grandmother Mary Langston. An African American Hughes became a well known poet, novelist, journalist, and playwright. First edition of Hughes' classic autobiography. Langston Hughes was one of the first black men to express the spirit of blues and jazz into words. ![]()
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