兰斯顿·修斯(1902—1967)是一位多才多艺的美国黑人作家。他不仅是一个诗人、剧作家、小说家、歌曲作者和传记作家,而且还是一位编辑、报纸专栏作家、翻译家和演讲家。修斯一生写过无数的短篇故事、大量的诗歌、七部小说以及六个剧本,但他主要还是作为一个诗人闻名于世。他的诗歌绝大多数是有关黑人的。我们中国人比较熟悉黑人运动领袖马丁路德·金,但是对于这位象马丁路德·金一样为黑人服务的黑人诗人,恐怕就知之不多了。谨在此作一介绍。 Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is a versatile black American writer. He is not only a poet, playwright, novelist, songwriter and biographer, but also an editor, newspaper columnist, translator and speaker. Hughes wrote innumerable short stories, a large number of poems, seven novels and six plays throughout his life, but he is still mostly known as a poet. The vast majority of his poems are about blacks. We, Chinese, are more familiar with the leader of the black movement, Martin Luther King, but I am probably afraid to know little about this black poet who serves Negroes like Martin Luther King. Here is an introduction.