Jazz Age Poet: A Story about Langston Hughes (Creative Minds Biographies) - Softcover

Jones, Veda Boyd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822530929 ISBN 13: 9780822530923

Publisher: LernerClassroom, 2006

Synopsis

The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children’s books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed financially, Hughes never gave up trying to be a better writer, and a better man.

About this title

About the Author:

Veda Boyd Jones is the author of 47 books with traditional publishers, some for adult markets, most for children. Publishers include Scholastic, Barbour, McGraw-Hill, Lerner, Lucent, Chelsea House, Wendy Pye, Avalon, and Seedling. In addition, she's had over 600 short stories or articles published in magazines (Woman's World, The Writer, Harris' Farmer's Almanac, Highlights, Cricket, Humpty Dumpty and many others). Now she's ventured into the e-world with Joe's Ghost, That Sunday Afternoon, The Cowboy's Christmas Secret and other books on Kindle. 

She says, "I am never bored when waiting in a doctor's or dentist's office, since I just turn on my imagination and invent characters to go along with the people sitting in chairs around me. But that's when I'm thinking of fiction.
I write a good deal of nonfiction for children. This is an entirely different way of writing. Ninety percent of my time is spent researching and documenting facts. Kids believe what they see in print, and my job is to make sure it is accurate."

You can see her entire bibliography at http://vedaboydjones.com

About this edition

• Publisher: LernerClassroom
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0822530929
• ISBN 13: 9780822530923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Kiwak Barbara