परिचय
जन्म : 1 फरवरी 1901, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका
भाषा : अँग्रेजीविधाएँ : कविता, कहानी, उपन्यास, आत्मकथा, नाटक, पटकथा, निबंध, बाल साहित्यमुख्य कृतियाँ
कविता संग्रह : The Weary Blues, Fine Clothes to the Jew, The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations, Dear Lovely Death, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play, Note on Commercial Theatre, Shakespeare in Harlem, Freedom's Plow, Jim Crow's Last Stand, Fields of Wonder, One-Way Ticket, Montage of a Dream Deferred, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, Ask Your Mama : 12 Moods for Jazz, The Panther and the Lash : Poems of Our Times
कथा साहित्य : Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks, Simple Speaks His Mind, Laughing to Keep from Crying, Simple Takes a Wife, Simple Stakes a Claim, Tambourines to Glory, The Best of Simple, Simple's Uncle Sam, Something in Common and Other Stories
नाटक : Mule Bone (with Zora Neale Hurston), Mulatto, Troubled Island, (William Grant Still), Little Ham, Emperor of Haiti, Don't You Want to be Free?, ‘Street Scene, contributed lyrics’, Tambourines to Glory, Simply Heavenly, Black Nativity, Five Plays by Langston Hughes, Jerico-Jim Crow
अन्य : The Big Sea, Famous American Negroes, Famous Negro Music Makers, I Wonder as I Wander, A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (with Milton Meltzer), Famous Negro Heroes of America, Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP
सम्मान
Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, honorary Litt.D. (Lincoln University, Western Reserve University, Howard University)
निधन
22 मई 1967