Title: Not without laughter (Keywords) and Author: Hughes, Langston (Keywords)

Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter (1930) is drawn in part from the author’s own recollections of youth and early manhood. “I wanted to write about a typical Negro family in the Middle West,” he later explained of his award-winning debut, and it is as a fond and richly anecdotal family and co...

Langston Hughes' little-known and only novel tells the poignant story of a young boy's awakening to the reality of black life in a small Kansas town in the 1920s.