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...most of his career DeCarava, who was born in 1919, has been a freelance photographer. He was 35 when he had his first critical and commercial success, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a 1955 book that combines his pictures of Harlem life with text by the poet Langston Hughes. If the book is sometimes guilty of the blandness of concerned photography, it also contains pictures that mark the beginning of DeCarava's best work, most of which dates from the 1950s and '60s. His street pictures speak in the international language of the snapshot aesthetic. Figures...
...America. --Langston Hughes...
When Mark Langston was traded to the Expos for three prospects, one a 6'10" "project" named Randy Johnson...
When all there was to root for was Mark Langston, and that glorious year when he won 17 games for a sub .500 team...
...around as fame's darling. She was, in fact, the last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens, fresh out of Girls' Latin School in Boston, West tied for second with Hurston in a short-story contest. After that, Hurston and the older black writers took her into their world as prodigy and mascot...