James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, but lived with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas, and subsequently more than half his life. His mother was a schoolteacher, she furthermore wrote poetry. His father, James Nathaniel Hughes, was a storekeeper. His father, James had wanted to become a lawyer, but he had been denied to take the bar exam. Hughes's parents separated and his mother moved from city to city in search of work. During his peripatetic childhood, Hughes lived in Mexico, Topeka, Kansas, Colorado, Indiana and Buffalo. …
