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Hughes travelled to Haiti in early April 1931 with a friend from
Cleveland, the artist Zell Ingram. Hughes wrote about the trip in the
second volume of his autobiography, I WONDER AS I WANDER (1956):
"Most of Haiti's people without shoes could not read or write, and had
no power. They lived in thatched huts or rickety houses; rose with
the sun; went to sleep with the dark. They washed their clothes in
running streams with lathery weeds-- too poor to buy soap." Hughes and
Ingram stayed in Haiti until July. Click on the letter below to listen to Emily Bernard's commentary. 
Zora Neale Hurston
by Carl Van Vechten
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- Listen to a rich conversation between Emily and Judith Jones, who was Langston Hughes's last editor and who continues to work at Knopf -- Judith served as Emily's editor on this project as well. While you listen to the conversation (about 15 minutes in length), you can still move around the site, look at images and read excerpts and letters. This is a large file to download.
- Hear Emily read several of the letters from the book on Random House's Bold Type.
- Visit the Langston Hughes pages in the Knopf Poetry Center.
- Read an excerpt from Carl Van Vechten's contoversial novel, Nigger Heaven.
- Return to Emily Bernard's main desktop page.
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