He was also working for the Chicago Defender writing about a comical character he named Jesse B.
In 1940 he published an autobiography of the first part of his life. It was titled The Big Sea. He was also working for the Chicago Defender writing about a comical character he named Jesse B. The decade also saw Hughes contribute lyrics to a Broadway musical and begin teaching creative writing at Atlanta University. At the beginning of 1951, he published ‘ Harlem (What happens to a dream deferred?)’. This poem is one of Langston Hughes’ greatest poems. This great 20th-century American poet died in May of 1967 from complications due to prostate cancer.