The return of Simple
By: Langston Hughes ; edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper ; introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Contributors: Harper, Donna Sullivan.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Simple (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; African American men -- Fiction; Humorous stories, American; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An anthology of the works of an African-American writer (1902-1967). It features his hero, Jesse "Simple" Semple, as he philosophizes from a Harlem bar on subjects ranging from marrying whites to the taking of an African name.