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Bontemps, Arna Wendell (13 Oct. 1902-4 June 1973), writer, was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, the son of Paul Bismark Bontemps, a bricklayer, and Maria Carolina Pembroke, a schoolteacher. He was reared in Los Angeles, where his family moved when he was three. He graduated from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California, in 1923.
The precarity of the 1930s undergirded major transitions in Arna Bontemps’s waged and writerly labor. The flusher years of the 1920s saw him winning prizes, teaching school, and writing poetry, but the 1930s saw him take a decidedly historical turn, penning historical novels Black Thunder (1936) and Drums at Dusk (1939) and training to be a curator. This tracks alongside broader shifts in ...
Arna Bontemps. Arna Bontemps, fotografiat el 1938 per Carl Van Vechten. Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps ( Alexandria, Louisiana, 13 d'octubre de 1902 - 4 de juny de 1973), conegut literàriament com a Arna Bontemps, fou un escriptor, professor i bibliotecari afroamericà, associat al Harlem Renaissance .
This turn-of-the-twentieth-century wood frame house serves as a memorial to the incredible life and work of Arnaud “Arna” Wendell Bontemps, one of the nation’s most prolific African American writers. Although his family left Alexandria while he was still a boy, much of Bontemps’ writing dealt with black life in Louisiana and the South, and as a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist ...
Arna Bontemps (1902 - 1973) Arna Bontemps was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, the son of Creole parents. His father was a skilled brick mason who moved his family to Los Angeles when Arna was three years old. Tension developed between father and son when Arna refused to be apprenticed as a mason.
Spanning 1888 to 1997, the Arna Wendell Bontemps Papers comprises correspondence, writings and memorabilia of the educator, historian, librarian and Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, playwright, and critic (1902-1973). While documenting Bontemps 21-year career as librarian at Fisk University, the collection also illuminates the life and work ...
BONTEMPS, ARNA. (1902-1973), novelist, poet, and librarian. Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, the first child of a Roman Catholic bricklayer and a Methodist schoolteacher, Arna Wendell Bontemps grew up in Cal- ifornia and graduated from Pacific Union College.
