Langston's train ride
By: by Robert Burleigh ; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins.
Contributors: Jenkins, Leonard, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Juvenile literature.; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American poets -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Poets, American.; African Americans -- Biography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."