Washburn professor: Langston Hughes was year older
(World News USA)

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A professor in Kansas says that poet Langston Hughes may have been born a year earlier that what`s on record. Hughes is commonly thought to have been born in 1902, spending his childhood in Topeka and Lawrence, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported . But Washburn University professor Eric McHenry said he unearthed evidence that Hughes was actually born a year earlier. He said a black newspaper called The Plaindealer had an item from 1901 that indicated `Little Langston Hughes` was under the weather but improving. The `ephemeral gossip` made a `vibrant historic record,` said McHenry, who teaches creative writing and poetry. ......