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Arna Bontemps. Arna Wendell Bontemps ( / bɒnˈtɒm / bon-TOM [1]) (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973) [2] was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance . Early life. Bontemps was born in 1902 in Alexandria, Louisiana, into a Louisiana Creole family.
- 1924–1973
- June 4, 1973 (aged 71), Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
- Arna Wendell Bontemps, October 13, 1902, Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S.
- Pacific Union College
18 de abr. de 2024 · Arna Bontemps (born October 13, 1902, Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S.—died June 4, 1973, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American writer who depicted the lives and struggles of black Americans. After graduating from Pacific Union College, Angwin, California , in 1923, Bontemps taught in New York and elsewhere.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Like his close friend Langston Hughes and their fellow writers in the Harlem Renaissance, Arna Bontemps explored African-American experience in a wide variety of genres. As a poet, novelist, historian, anthologist and archivist, he enriched and preserved black cultural heritage.
Arna Bontemps. 1902 –. 1973. Read poems by this poet. Arna Wendell Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in Alexandria, Louisiana, the son of a Creole bricklayer and a schoolteacher. At age three, he and his family moved to Los Angeles after his father was mortally threatened by two drunk white men.
18 de ene. de 2007 · Considered a pioneer among African American historical fiction writers, Bontemps authored the best known of his novels, the critically-acclaimed Black Thunder (1936), which was based on the actual event of a slave revolt in Virginia led by Gabriel Prosser in 1800.
Arna Wendell Bontemps (bahn-TAHM) began his literary career writing poetry, yet his fame as one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and versatile black writers rests largely on his...
21 de may. de 2018 · June 4, 1973. Arna Bontemps — poet, playwright, novelist, critic, editor, and anthologist — was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. His work is distinguished by a passionate struggle for liberation and a mystical faith in the unseen.
