| My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes''s Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 Subjects: Hughes Carrie –1938 -- Correspondence; Hughes Langston 1902–1967 -- Correspondence; Mothers of authors -- United States -- Correspondence; African American mothers -- Biography; African American authors -- Family relationships; My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston--Harlem Renaissance icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer, and essayist--played in his work. Carmaletta M. Williams (Editor) CARMALETTA M. WILLIAMS, professor of English and African American studies at Johnson County Community College, is the author of Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me" and Of Two Spirits: American Indian and African American Oral Histories . John Edgar Tidwell (Editor) JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. His previous books include Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes , After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown , and Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press . |