Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)
Autore di American Negro Poetry
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: 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)
Serie
Opere di Arna Bontemps
You Can't Pet a Possum 2 copie
Anthology of Negro poetry — A cura di — 2 copie
Black Theatre — A cura di — 1 copia
Opere correlate
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Collaboratore — 410 copie
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Collaboratore — 176 copie
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Collaboratore — 101 copie
Anger, and beyond: the Negro writer in the United States (1966) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 20 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Bontemps, Arnaud Wendell
- Data di nascita
- 1902-10-13
- Data di morte
- 1973-06-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Istruzione
- Pacific Union College (BA|English|1923)
University of Chicago (MA|Library Science|1943) - Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist
teacher
librarian
children's book author
editor (mostra tutto 7)
historian - Relazioni
- Cullen, Countee (friend)
Du Bois, W. E. B. (friend)
Hughes, Langston (friend)
Hurston, Zora Neale (friend)
Johnson, James Weldon (friend)
McKay, Claude (friend) (mostra tutto 7)
Toomer, Jean (friend) - Organizzazioni
- Fisk University
NAACP
PEN
Dramatists Guild
American Library Association
Sigma Pi Phi (mostra tutto 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) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1949-1950
Julius Rosenwald fellowship, 1938 &1942
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 46
- Opere correlate
- 24
- Utenti
- 1,304
- Popolarità
- #19,682
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 69
- Lingue
- 1