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Arna Bontemps


Born
in Alexandria, Louisiana, The United States
October 13, 1902

Died
June 04, 1973


Works of poetry, history, and fiction, such as God Sends Sunday (1931) and Black Thunder (1936), established American writer Arna Wendell Bontemps as a leading figure of the renaissance of Harlem.

People note Arnaud Wendell Bontemps, an African novelist and librarian, as a member.

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Black Thunder
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3.73 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1936 — 20 editions
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A Summer Tragedy
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American Negro Poetry
4.14 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1963 — 27 editions
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Popo and Fifina
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Story of the Negro
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3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1948 — 11 editions
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Great Slave Narratives
4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions
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God Sends Sunday
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The Fast Sooner Hound
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Drums at Dusk: A Novel
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The Pasteboard Bandit
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““is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?”
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