Arna Wendell Bontemps (/bɒnˈtɒm/ bon-TOM) (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973) was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem...
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Arna Bontemps Hemenway is an American author and professor most known for his book Elegy on Kinderklavier, which won the PEN/Hemingway Prize, was a finalist...
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for children. With the encouragement of his best friend and writer, Arna Bontemps, and patron and friend, Carl Van Vechten, he wrote two volumes of autobiography...
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Bontemps is a surname of French origin, meaning "good time". Individuals with the name "Bontemps" include: Arna Bontemps, novelist the Bontemps African...
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St. Louis Woman is a 1946 American musical by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The musical opened...
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Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps is a children's history book published by Knopf in 1948. It was the first African-American authored book to receive...
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Arna Wendell Bontemps House is located in Alexandria, Louisiana. On October 13, 1902, author Arna Wendell Bontemps was born there. It was the childhood...
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is partly inspired by Häyhä's legendary reputation. American author Arna Bontemps Hemenway has written a short story about Häyhä, called "Wolves of Karelia"...
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terrorists. (Note: It is not related to the novel of the same name by Arna Bontemps.) Michael Dudikoff as Vince Conners Richard Norton as Rather Marcus...
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Look up Arna, arna, or -arna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Arna may refer to: Arna Bontemps (1902–1973), African-American poet, novelist, librarian...
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The Arna Bontemps African American Museum was a museum in the United States city of Alexandria, Louisiana. The museum was housed in the restored home...
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farming, and the impact of war. The T.R.E.E. House Children's Museum and Arna Bontemps African American Museum are located within the Cultural Arts District...
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145n. W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography, edited by Arna Bontemps: foreword by Abbe Niles. Macmillan Company, New York; (1941), pp. 99...
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Ferris, p. 230 Handy, W.C. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. Ed. Arna Bontemps. New York: Macmillan, 1941. p. 143 Ewen, pp. 142–143 Blesh, Rudi; Janis...
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(1911–1988) Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) Guion Bluford (born 1942) Arna Bontemps (1902–1973) Edward W. Brooke (1919–2015) Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)...
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Wright founded the South Side Writers Group, whose members included Arna Bontemps and Margaret Walker. Through the group and his membership in the John...
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such leading figures of the New Negro movement as Countee Cullen and Arna Bontemps. Responses to the magazine ranged from minimal notice in the white press...
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driver (d. 1975) 1900 – Gerald Marks, American composer (d. 1997) 1902 – Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet (d. 1973) 1902 – Karl Leichter...
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(Performed by Arna Bontemps) (Folkways Records, 1955) Joseph and His Brothers: From In the Beginning by Sholem Asch (Performed by Arna Bontemps) (Folkways...
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43 (6): 894–907. doi:10.1086/217872. JSTOR 2768686. S2CID 144039917. Bontemps, Arna; Conroy, Jack (1945). "Beloved and scattered millions". They Seek a...
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37–39. Retrieved April 22, 2012. Academy of American Poets. "About Arna Bontemps". poets.org. Retrieved June 19, 2020. "Aaron Douglas, Painter, at 79;...
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through the books of Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, and others. Wilson knew that he wanted to be a writer, but this created...
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Retrieved 2019-08-13. The 10 Best Short Stories You've Never Read, by Arna Bontemps Hemenway, at the Huffington Post; published July 14, 2014; retrieved...
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life, Cullen wrote mostly for the theatre. He worked with Arna Bontemps to adapt Bontemps's 1931 novel God Sends Sunday as the musical St. Louis Woman...
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Peachtree street Pretty flower of the tropics, Text: Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps Rainbow gold, Text: Roger Cheney Sing aho, Spiritual Six Songs on Poems...
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Theft Auto V. 03 Greedo, rapper P. P. Arnold, singer Bambu, rapper Arna Bontemps, poet and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance Don Cherry, jazz musician...
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Nella Larsen, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, George Schuyler, Arna Bontemps, and Langston Hughes. Fauset was the first person to publish Hughes...
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Baldwin, Imamu Baraka, Romare Bearden, Harry Belafonte, Lerone Bennett, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee Davis, St. Clair Drake, Ernest Dunbar, Katherine...
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holding the professorship included W. H. Auden, Bertrand Russell and Arna Bontemps. When questioned why she would want to teach at an institution with...
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Updated on 2009. Sad-Faced Boy, by Arna Bontemps (1937); ISBN 0-395-06643-3 Fast Sooner Hound (1942) by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy; 1975 ISBN 0-395-18657-9...
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