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• Langston Hughes: the First Book of Rhythms

  

  LANGSTON HUGHES'S SECOND BOOK for the Franklin Watts First Book series was The First Book of Rhythms (1954). Drawing heavily from a course Hughes taught at the... Read more

  The 25 October 2010 by   Winterthorn
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• Langston Hughes: the First Book of Negroes

  

  WHEN LANGSTON HUGHES CAME TO PROMINENCE as the premier African-American poet in the late 1920s and early 1930s, many of his poems expressed anger over the... Read more

  The 10 October 2010 by   Winterthorn
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• E. Simms Campbell

  

  THE ARTIST FOR LANGSTON HUGHES AND ARNA BONTEMP'S children's novel Popo and Fifina was the Jackie Robinson of commercial art and cartooning, E. Simms Campbell... Read more

  The 07 October 2010 by   Winterthorn
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• Ursula Koering

  

  THE FIRST BOOK OF NEGROES BY LANGSTON HUGHES and Slappy Hooper by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy are just two of over two hundred books for children that Ursula... Read more

  The 21 October 2010 by   Winterthorn
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• New Book on Milton's Influence on Kant

  

  Illustration for Paradise Lost by Gustav DoréKant and Milton, a new book by Sanford Budick about Milton's inlfuence on Kant. Others apart sat on a hill... Read more

  The 01 October 2010 by   Praymont
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• Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy: Slappy Hooper

  

  IN 1932, ARNA BONTEMPS AND LANGSTON HUGHES collaborated on the children's novel Popo and Fifina. Several years after that book, Bontemps began to collaborate... Read more

  The 15 October 2010 by   Winterthorn
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• Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps: Popo and Fifina

  

  IN 1902, two almost brothers unrelated by blood and unknown to each other were born eight and a half months apart. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in... Read more

  The 06 October 2010 by   Winterthorn
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• 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam

  

  Laura Vanderkam. a New York City-based journalist, is the author of Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007), which... Read more

  The 24 October 2010 by   Brigittethompson
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• Perceptions of Archon 34 by a “con Virgin” Part 2

  

  Saturday at Archon was, to say the least, busy. It was also a hell of a lot of fun. There were, it seemed, at least ten times the number of people there, many o... Read more

  The 07 October 2010 by   Alexxmomcat
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• Pat Hauldren Editor and Writer Extraordinaire

  

  Pat Hauldren, known to her friends as Alley, joins us today from Grand Prairie, Texas. She is a talented freelance writer, editor and writing teacher who wears... Read more

  The 09 October 2010 by   Brigittethompson
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