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The Ballad of the Landlord Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Langston Hughes was a prolific writer of both poetry and plays. Students would benefit tremendously from seeking out more of his work.

Another work of twentieth-century literature that explores eviction is Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

Other important writers of the Harlem Renaissance—Hughes's contemporaries—include Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Jessie Redmon Fausset.

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