Langston Hughes (1902-67) who wrote the poem  I, Too, Sing Americaand many more.you should be researching your authors life and attempting to connect his real life to his 3 poems/stories.

As an example, I chose the author Tennesee Williams who wrote the plays Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie.

I started by researching his life on Biography.com- https://www.biography.com/writer/tennessee-williams [biography.com]. Take a look at that page as an example. There is a lot of info about his life, but I want to highlight IMPACTFUL elements from his identity and background. Things like what school he attended or what awards he won are not relevant in this paper. I am looking for deeper, more meaningful things. So, I brainstormed the following connections:

Difficult childhood (biography.com [biography.com] indicated his parents had a difficult marriage and he had a strained relationship with his father)
Illness (he was hospitalized for depression and his sister was disabled)
Addiction (he struggled with drugs and alcohol)
Sexuality (he was a gay man living in the South in the middle 1900s)