Selected Letters of Langston Hughes: Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    [Correspondence. Selections]
        The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes/edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel ; with Christa Fratantoro.
            pages cm
        Includes index.
        ISBN 978-0-375-41379-7 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-0-385-35356-4 (eBook)    1. Hughes, Langston, 1902–1967—Correspondence.    2. Authors, American—20th century—Correspondence.    3. African American authors—Correspondence.    I. Rampersad, Arnold.    II. Roessel, David E. (David Ernest), 1954–
    PS3515.U274Z48 2014
    818′.5209—dc23
    [B]

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Front-of-jacket photograph of Langston Hughes, 1940, by Carl Van Vechten.
Used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust. Print: Yale Collection of
American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson

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