num_pages: 218
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.
language: English
title: The Return of Simple
titlecomplete: The Return of Simple
genres: Classics, Short Stories, African American, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 176
publisher: Hill and Wang