# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/langston-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:28:33.885Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/langston-hughes"
name: "Langston Hughes"
slug: "langston-hughes"
description: "James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance."
tagline: "American writer and social activist (1901–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LangstonHughes_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-02-01"
deathDate: "1967-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump