CULTURETECHLENSRichard Bruce Nugent
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Combined Graph record U-03525 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1384. Master record source: User-supplied review 2026-10-17 (Once Upon a Time in Harlem review, Oct 15, 2026) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Painter and writer; close friend of Langston Hughes
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Painter and writer; close friend of Langston Hughes
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- Role(s): Harlem Renaissance figure
- Known for: Painter and writer; close friend of Langston Hughes
Relationships
- Harlem Renaissance Reunion Party (1972) — appeared in
STRONG EVIDENCE - Once Upon a Time in Harlem — appeared in
STRONG EVIDENCE
Sources
- https://villagepreservation.org/2023/09/21/before-baldwin-the-writings-of-richard-bruce-nugent/ (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Richard Bruce Nugent (born July 2, 1906, Washington, D.C.; died 1987) was a writer and artist of the Harlem Renaissance — author of 'Smoke, Lilies, and Jade' in Fire!! (1926), which he co-edited with Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston; he met Hughes in Georgia Douglas Johnson's salon circle, followed him to Harlem, integrated into Hughes's close circle of friends, and Hughes launched his career by rescuing his poem 'Shadow' for publication in Opportunity; he later co-founded the Harlem Cultural Council.
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