I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey

Langston Hughes

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Oct 13, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.

His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.

Contents

• 1 IN SEARCH OF SUN: 3
• 2 POETRY TO THE PEOPLE: 39
• 3 MOSCOW MOVIE: 69
• 4 SOUTH TO SAMARKAND: 101
• 5 SPRING BESIDE THE KREMLIN: 191
• 6 COLOR AROUND THE GLOBE: 237
• 7 WRITING FOR A LIVING: 281
• 8 WORLD WITHOUT END: 321

About the author

Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, was educated at Lincoln University, and lived for most of his life in New York City. He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays, and children's books. Among his works are two volumes of memoirs, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, and two collections of Simple stories, The Best of Simple and The Return of Simple.

Bibliographic information

• Title: I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
• Author: Langston Hughes
• Contributor: Arnold Rampersad
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
• ISBN: 1466894881, 9781466894884
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black; Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures