Description
Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss and dispossession, but he also cheered them on with his wonderful wit and passion for life.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 08/31/1995
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.54w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780809015825
ISBN10: 080901582X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, was educated at Lincoln University, and lived for most of his life in New York City. He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays, and children's books. Among his works are two volumes of memoirs, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, and two collections of Simple stories, The Best of Simple and The Return of Simple.
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