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[|**LANGSTON HUGHES**]

1 Hughes poetry and prose were beginning to appear in the "Brownies book", a publication for children edited by W.E.B. Du Bois, and he was starting work on ambitious material dealing with adult realities. 2 Hughes transformed the bitterness that such themes generated in many of his African American contemporaries into sharp irony, gentle satire, and humor. 3 Hughes resumed his education in 1925 and graduated from Lincoln University in 1929. "Not Without Laughter" was his first novel, in 1930. 4 In 1931 he made the first of what became annual lecture tours. He took a trip to the soviet union the next year.

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