Arna Bontemps

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Biography of Arna Bontemps

Arna Bontemps (19021973) 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. Photo: Carl Van Vecten

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7 Books by Arna Bontemps


Book Cover Black Voices by Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X

Black Voices

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Book Cover Anyplace But Here by Arna Bontemps

Anyplace But Here

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Book Cover American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (American Century) by Arna Bontemps

American Negro Poetry

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Book Cover Another Good Loving Blues by Arna Bontemps

Another Good Loving Blues

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Book Cover Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800 by Arna Bontemps

Black Thunder

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Book Cover Great Slave Narratives by Arna Bontemps

Great Slave Narratives

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Book Cover Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

Story of the Negro

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