Yet, with his unique gift for writing, Hughes turned the pain engendered by his parents' conflict into the noted poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," published by Crisis in 1921. ... The first volume, The Big Sea, written in an episodic, lightly comic manner, made virtually no mention of his leftist sympathies, and I Wonder As I Wander written in 1956 was Hughes's much-admired second volume of autobiography. ...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School