Because of the color of her skin, Hughes' mother struggled at getting a well paying job which resulted in the family growing up in poverty. He mainly grew up with his mother due to his father abandoning them in order to seek fortune in Mexico. Langston Hughes' childhood was tumultuous. Hughes's autobiography exemplifies the obstacles that many African-American artists faced during the early twentieth century in the United States. Eventually, he began to rise to fame as a writer, Hughes began referencing his past struggles regarding abuse from his father where he was divided between the trauma his father endured versus the damage it did to Hughes. In his time in Paris, Hughes struggled to find a stable income and had to learn to be efficient by taking many odd jobs like working in nightclubs and small writing jobs.
In it, he tells his experience of being a writer of color in Paris, France, and his experiences living in New York, where he faced injustices surrounding systematic racism.
The Big Sea (1940) is an autobiographical work by Langston Hughes.
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