what influenced langston hughes to write?
Walt Whitman
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 Baker was also the inspiration for literary works . In 1913 F. Scott Fitzgerald enrolled at Princeton as a freshman , when Baker was a senior . Though he only spoke to Baker once during their time at Princeton , Fitzgerald idolized him . His first novel , This Side of Paradise , has several references to Baker : the main character is named Amory Blaine after Baker 's middle name , and the minor character Allenby is Baker himself . Mark Goodman 's 1985 novel Hurrah for the Next Man Who Dies is a fictionalized account of Baker 's life . 

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 The Sunday Times Magazine hired Chatwin in 1972 . He travelled the world for work and interviewed figures such as the politicians Indira Gandhi and André Malraux . He left the magazine in 1974 to visit Patagonia , which resulted in his first book . He produced five other books , including The Songlines ( 1987 ) , which was a bestseller . His work is credited with reviving the genre of travel writing , and his works influenced other writers such as William Dalrymple , Claudio Magris , Philip Marsden , Luis Sepúlveda , and Rory Stewart . 

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 Robert Penn Warren 's World Enough and Time was also inspired by them . 

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 In 1963 the Doubleday publishing company asked Haley to write a book about the life of Malcolm X. American writer and literary critic Harold Bloom writes , " When Haley approached Malcolm with the idea , Malcolm gave him a startled look ... " Haley recalls , " It was one of the few times I have ever seen him uncertain . " After Malcolm X was granted permission from Elijah Muhammad , he and Haley commenced work on the Autobiography , a process which began as two @-@ and three @-@ hour interview sessions at Haley 's studio in Greenwich Village . Bloom writes , " Malcolm was critical of Haley 's middle @-@ class status , as well as his Christian beliefs and twenty years of service in the U.S. Military . " 

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 Langston Hughes , preeminent poet of the Harlem Renaissance and child of an itinerant couple , lived in Cleveland as a teenager and attended Central High School in Cleveland in the 1910s . He wrote for the school newspaper and started writing his earlier plays , poems and short stories while living in Cleveland . The African @-@ American avant garde poet Russell Atkins also lived in Cleveland . 
