Arna Bontemps Biography
| Born as | Arnaud Wendell Bontemps |
| Occup. | Poet |
| From | USA |
| Born | October 13, 1902
Alexandria, Louisiana |
| Died | June 4, 1973
Nashville, Tennessee |
| Aged | 70 years |
Arna Wendell Bontemps was an American author, thought about one of the leading numbers in the literary as well as cultural motion of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and also 1930s years-was.
After college he researched at Pacific Union College, finished 1923, and also this was then functioning as a teacher at a number of colleges. In November 1926 he was one of the writers of just one released journal Fire!, Which was planned as a quarterly literary publication of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1931 he gave his genuine literary debut with the novel God Sends Sunday, the stories You Can not Get a Possum (1934), Black Thunder (1936) and also Drums at Dusk (1939) adhered to. He took the concern of insurgency-colored, to ensure that he was implicated of asking African Americans to violence.
In 1943 he began functioning as a curator of Fisk University, which he held until his fatality. His non-fiction story of the Negro (1948) recounted the history of African Americans from the moment of the African kingdoms to the American visibility, and also came from one of the first youngsters's books, which handled the problems of racial segregation as well as discrimination in American culture.
After leaving his composition after he released a few biographical non-fiction books such as
George Washington Carver, Sam Patch (1951), Frederick Douglass: Slave Fighter Freeman (1959), One Hundred Years of Negro Freedom (1961), Famous Negro Athletes (1964), The Harlem Renaissance Remembered (1972) as well as Young Booker:
Booker T. Washington's Early Days (1972) concerning the young people of the civil liberties lobbyist
Booker T. Washington.
Along with his stories he likewise composed rhymes, such as Southern Mansion and also A Black Man Talks of Reaping. Via his anthology of African American verse and also his historic jobs, he contributed to the understanding and also gratitude of the splendor and worth of African-American culture.
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Related authors: Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Frederick Douglass (Author), George Washington Carver (Scientist), George Washington (President), Booker T. Washington (Educator)
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