The Big Sea

Description:

<p><em>The Big Sea</em> (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes’s life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.</p> The Big Sea (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes's life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.

subjects: African American poets,  Intellectual life,  American Authors,  Afro-American poets,  Harlem Renaissance,  American Poets,  Biography,  Hughes, langston, 1902-1967

People: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Times: 20th century