About the Author
Langston Hughes was born on February 1,1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He started writing poetry after his election of class poet in grammar school. In addition, to twelve volumes of poems, he wrote novels, popular histories, short stories, plays, librettos and lyrics for operas and musicals, and children's books. Hughes died of a heart attack in New York City. "Salvation" is taken from Hughes's autobiography, The Big Sea (1940).
"Salvation"
By Langston Hughes
The story of ...
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