In 1963, when Smalley collected the plays and wrote the essay for Five Plays by Langston Hughes, none of Hughes' plays had been published although all had been staged. Later Smalley wrote the extensive biographical essay about Hughes for the Dictionary of the Black Theatre, Broadway, Off-Broadway and Selected Harlem Theatres , Allen Woll, editor. No matter when I called him, and I have called him at some crazy hours, Dr. Smalley has always been ready to help. He has been a very special person to me. Upon his retirement in 1989, after teaching at The University of Texas at Austin for twenty years, Dr. Smalley was named Professor Emeritus, and an endowed student scholarship in playwriting was established in his name.
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