I Wonder As I Wander is the second volume of Langston Hughes's autobiography, taking up where The Big Sea ended. Covering the period from his twenty-ninth year to his thirty-fifth year, this volume, which was originally published in 1956, is filled with vivid portraits of the people and places Hughes encountered during his travels around the world.

About the Author: Joseph McLaren is Professor of English at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He is the author of Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 and the editor of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 13, Autobiography: The Big Sea (University of Missouri Press).