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Books set in The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York

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Cover of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

by W. Jason Miller (2026)

Setting
New York in the 1960s, where Langston Hughes and Nina Simone became close friends; Hughes left a play after its first act to hear her at the Village Gate on April 3, 1961
About
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes and the Birth of Black Power. A Booklist and Library Journal starred review. Cover courtesy University of North Carolina Press.
Source
theconversation.com
ISBN
9781469698212
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