The introduction to this memoir written by Arnold Ramperstad tells us that Langston Hughes avoided writing his memoir when first asked to do so in his early 20s until he felt like he had lived long enough to have a story to tell. This is false modesty probably because the story he has is pretty wild already. Ramperstad also tells us that Hughes pulls some of his punches, especially his Communist-ties punches from several of his stories and poems, and well the memoir is not […]