Title: The big sea
Subtitle: an autobiography
First published: 1940
Description: <p><em>The Big Sea</em> (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes&#8217;s life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.</p>

The Big Sea (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes's life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
Subjects: African American poets, Intellectual life, American Authors, Afro-American poets, Harlem Renaissance, American Poets, Biography, Hughes, langston, 1902-1967
Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
People: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Time periods: 20th century