Langston Hughes was an African American writer who spent the early 1920s in England and Paris. His autobiography The Big Sea of 1940s has been republished in England (Pluto Press, 1986) and in the U.S.A. It is available for £7.–.
A well-written biography by Arnold Rampersad was published in New York by Oxford University Press – volume 1 (1902-1941) in 1986 and volume 2 (1941-1967) in 1988. Copies are available for £5 to £7.–. They fill out details in The Big Sea.
Index to Building Your Library
# 1 Neil Parsons, King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen. Tswana 1895
# 2 Nancy Cunard
# 3 Leslie ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
# 4 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
# 5 Brew family of Ghana and London
# 6 Booker T Washington; Chief Alfred Sam
# 7 Wellesley Cole, Kossoh Town Boy and An Innocent in Britain
# 8 Ira Aldridge
# 9 Paul Robeson, Negro, 1927
# 10 The Black Abolitionist Papers, Vol 1
# 11 Jomo Kenyatta
# 12 Langston Hughes The Big Sea (1940) and Rampersad’s biography 1986, 1988
# 13 Percy Chen, China Called Me
# 14 Stimela Jingoes (Lesotho) recalled France in 1917; Herbert Julian Black Eagle memoir of a Trinidad aeroplane fanatic trained in 1910s England
# 15 Thomas L. Johnson, Twenty-eight Years a Slave (Bournemouth 1909)
# 16 Donald Hinds, Journey to an Illusion (1966).