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James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on Feb. 1st 1902.
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James Hughes and Carrie Langston separated soon after James Langstons birth.
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Langston was around 16 years old when his grandmother passed away and he had to move with is mother in Illinois.
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When Langston moved with his mother in Illinois, he started working different jobs, to help out with his mother.
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After Langston moved in with his grandmother a few years later she passed away when Langston was still in his early teens.
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At 13 years old James Hughes moved with his grandmother after his father and mother separated, She was his guardian for a while.
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Langston eventually got tired of all of the jobs, he decided to do something that made him happy, this is when he started writing poetry.
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After settling down Langston started writing poems and got noticed and he got a lot of awards and letters.
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After Langston started settling down, he started writing different kinds of poetry. After all of the awards and things he won for it, he died on May 22nd, 1967 at 65 years old due to prostate cancer. But yet still leaving great poetry for people to love and to remember him.
