Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Associate Dean for the Humanities at Stanford University. His many books include the two-volume Life of Langston Hughes; Days of Grace: A Memoir (co-authored with Arthur Ashe); and the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Associate Editor, Hilary Herbold, a graduate of the University of California at Irvine, also earned a doctorate in English and American Literature in 1997 from Princeton University. After teaching for several years in the Department of English, Dr. Herbold is now Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students at Princeton.

This definitive volume captures, in verse, the history of African American life and culture. A landmark publication for African American literature and a major contribution to American poetry as a whole.

Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Associate Dean for the Humanities at Stanford University. His many books include the two-volume Life of Langston Hughes; Days of Grace: A Memoir (co-authored with Arthur Ashe); and the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Associate Editor, Hilary Herbold, a graduate of the University of California at Irvine, also earned a doctorate in English and American Literature in 1997 from Princeton University. After teaching for several years in the Department of English, Dr. Herbold is now Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students at Princeton.

This definitive volume captures, in verse, the history of African American life and culture. A landmark publication for African American literature and a major contribution to American poetry as a whole.

Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Associate Dean for the Humanities at Stanford University. His many books include the two-volume Life of Langston Hughes; Days of Grace: A Memoir (co-authored with Arthur Ashe); and the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Associate Editor, Hilary Herbold, a graduate of the University of California at Irvine, also earned a doctorate in English and American Literature in 1997 from Princeton University. After teaching for several years in the Department of English, Dr. Herbold is now Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students at Princeton.

This definitive volume captures, in verse, the history of African American life and culture. A landmark publication for African American literature and a major contribution to American poetry as a whole.