HUGHES, LANGSTON. Writer ( in Joplin, Missouri; in New York, New York). Although best-known as a poet-writer, he was also active musically as a writer of lyrics, librettos for operas and musicals, and books and poems about music. He obtained his education at Columbia University in New York (1921-22) and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (B.A., 1929). The works for which he wrote librettos (or plays later adapted into librettos) included Troubled Island (music by (music by ...