Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)
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Arna Bontemps was one of many African American writers associated with Fisk University, where he taught for 20 years. He became a visiting professorship at Yale University and returned to Fisk to spend the last years of his life there. Bontemps grew up in the South and wrote of the condition and näytä lisää spirit of the southern black in memoirs and in fiction. His historical and topical novel Black Thunder (1936) is perhaps his best known, along with Drums at Dusk (1935). As an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance, however, Bontemps wrote prolifically in all genres and for children as well as adults. He produced several important collections of narratives about enslaved people and African American folk tales. Bontemps was a major anthologizer of Harlem Renaissance work and helped shape the new black writing as theoretician and critic. Bontemps died in 1973. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, Aug. 15, 1939 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-6356)
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The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays Edited with a Memoir by Arna Bontemps (1972) 35 kappaletta
Sam Patch, the high, wide & handsome jumper 3 kappaletta
You Can't Pet a Possum 2 kappaletta
Anthology of Negro poetry — Toimittaja — 2 kappaletta
Black Theatre — Toimittaja — 1 kappale
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Avustaja — 406 kappaletta
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Avustaja — 174 kappaletta
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Avustaja — 99 kappaletta
Anger, and beyond: the Negro writer in the United States (1966) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 20 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Bontemps, Arnaud Wendell
- Syntymäaika
- 1902-10-13
- Kuolinaika
- 1973-06-04
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Koulutus
- Pacific Union College (BA|English|1923)
University of Chicago (MA|Library Science|1943) - Ammatit
- poet
novelist
teacher
librarian
children's book author
editor (näytä kaikki 7)
historian - Suhteet
- Cullen, Countee (friend)
Du Bois, W. E. B. (friend)
Hughes, Langston (friend)
Hurston, Zora Neale (friend)
Johnson, James Weldon (friend)
McKay, Claude (friend) (näytä kaikki 7)
Toomer, Jean (friend) - Organisaatiot
- Fisk University
NAACP
PEN
Dramatists Guild
American Library Association
Sigma Pi Phi (näytä kaikki 12)
Omega Psi Phi
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Harlem Academy
Oakwood Junior College
WPA Illinois Writers’ Project
Yale University (curator of the James Weldon Johnson Collection) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1949-1950
Julius Rosenwald fellowship, 1938 &1942
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