Campbell, the "Last Free American". Campbell is an American-born playwright who has made his life in pre-war Germany. ... One day an American agent, after appealing to Howard's sense of heroics, recruits him as a spy for America. ... Was he an American who inadvertently helped the Nazis? Or was he an American not reluctant to help the Nazis? ...
Langston Hughes Poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, essayist, and songwriter: all of these words describe a man who is said to be one of the twentieth century's most respected and often controversial writers. ... Shaped by his parents, childhood, and life experiences, Langston Hughes became one of the most influential Black Americans of his time. ... He once said, "Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America" (Berry 21). ... In 1932, he went with a group of twenty-two blacks to Russia to help make a film about race relations in the America...
Giovanni's Room told of a white American expatriate and his coming to terms with his homosexuality. ... First, in 1968, he published Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as a bitter account of American racism. ... (Both of these recent events have increased African-American political awareness and unity.) ... Essentially, Baldwin is not particularly dramatic, but he can be extremely eloquent, compelling, and sometimes irritating as a playwright committed to his approach to life. ... While African-American anger is definitely a part of Blues for Mr. ...
