Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes

In 'Not So Simple, ' Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper examines the character as he emerged in Hughes's columns, from the beginning to Semple's farewell in 'The New York Post' in December 1965, by which time Semple was being decried by many as an anachronism that failed to reflect the growing complexity of black life in a turbulent time... --New York Times Book Review