Burleigh, Robert.

Langston's train ride / by Robert Burleigh ; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins. - 1st ed. - New York : Orchard Books, 2004. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

ISBN: 0439352398 9780439352390

LCCN: 2003049899

Subjects--Personal Names:
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
African American poets--Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 818/.5209 B