Tag Archives: Nicolas Guillen

Spanish Civil War: Hughes and Hemingway

July 4, 2012 The Beinecke Library doesn’t have a great Hemingway Collection (most of his material is at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston), but I did find a rare photo, taken in Madrid in 1937, Hemingway with Langston Hughes, … Continue reading

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Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence

February 8, 2012 Langston Hughes never went to Black Mountain College, but maybe he didn’t need to. 1948-49 was emblematic.  A no doubt incomplete list of what happened during those months: in June 1948, Langston Hughes moved into 20 East … Continue reading

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