ildren, called, 'The Dream Keeper'. Langstons play, 'Mulatto' opened on Broadway in 1935. Also, he wrote the lyrics for 'Street Scene', a 1947 opera by Kurt Weill. James Langston Hughes died, at 65 years of age, in New York City on May 22, 1967, after having an abdominal surgery. During his lifetime, he wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals & operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio & television scripts, dozens of magazine articles, and many other things. In addition, he edited seven anthologies. Langston Hughes poems told about the joys and miseries of the ordinary black man in America. ...
