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Person Detail: Arna Bontemps
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| Full Name: Arna Bontemps | ||
| Biography: (1902-1973) Novelist, poet. Arna Bontemps lived in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City during the 1920s. |
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| 1902 |
(Unknown) County Arna Bontemps was born in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1902. |
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| 1924 |
New York County Bontemps accepted a teaching position at Harlem Academy in Manhattan, New York at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and taught there until 1931. |
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| 1931 |
(Unknown) County God Sends Sunday (Pub: Harcourt, Brace. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1932 |
(Unknown) County Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti (Pub: Macmillan. ISBN: ) A travel book for children in collaboration with Langston Hughes. |
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| 1932 |
(Unknown) County A Summer Tragedy Short story. |
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| 1934 |
(Unknown) County You Can't Pet a Possum Book for children. |
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| 1936 |
(Unknown) County Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia 1800 (Pub: Macmillan. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1937 |
(Unknown) County Sad-Faced Boy Novel. |
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| 1939 |
(Unknown) County Drums at Dusk Novel. |
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| 1941 |
(Unknown) County Father of the Blues Novel. |
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| 1973 |
(Unknown) County Bontemps died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1973. |
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| 1973 |
(Unknown) County The Old South: (Pub: Dodd, Mead. ISBN: ) Short story collection. |
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| 1941 |
(Unknown) County Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young People (Pub: Harper. ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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| 1973 |
(Unknown) County Bontemps was interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. |
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