Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
Photo: Carl Van Vecten

Arna Bontemps was the author of 25 books of poetry, history, biography, fiction and anthologies.  Bontemps was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance.  Bontemps served as head librarian at Fisk University from 1969 to 1972.  He was also curator of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters at Yale University.

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American Negro Poetry

 

Anyplace But Here

 

The Autobiography of an EX-Coloured Man

 

Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800

 

Father of the Blues: An Autobiography

 

Great Slave Narratives

 

One Hundred Years of Negro Freedom

 

The Pasteboard Bandit

 

American Negro Poetry, Revised Ed.

 

The Book of Negro Folklore