Langston Hughes Before and Beyond Harlem, 1983 Faith Berry

Langston Hughes Before and Beyond Harlem, 1983 by Faith Berry was the first full-length biography of this celebrated black writer-- jazz poet, dramatist and novelist.  First Edition.

• Hughes (1902 - 1967) was best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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• "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?"  Hughes wrote.
  

This paperback copy of Berry's substantive biography is in very good vintage condition--still firm and strongly bound, without marks or tears, little shelf wear, just the expected signs of handling. 

The book measures 5 3/4 inches by 9 inches by 1 inch and has 376 pages.