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He received a considerable amount of attention for his first novel, God Sends Sunday (1931). This novel explored the story of an African-American jockey named Little Augie who easily earns money and carelessly squanders it.
- 1924–1973
- June 4, 1973 (aged 71), Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
- Arna Wendell Bontemps, October 13, 1902, Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S.
- Pacific Union College
4 de mai. de 2023 · God sends Sunday. by. Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. Publication date. 1931. Topics. African American jockeys -- Fiction, Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction, Horse racing -- Fiction. Publisher. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company.
In 1926 he married Alberta Johnson, who would bear him six children, and in 1931, as the Depression worsened, he accepted a post at Oakwood Junior College in Huntsville, Alabama. In that year, too, Bontemps published his first book, God Sends Sunday, a novel about a St. Louis jockey.
8 de fev. de 2005 · God Sends Sunday is the first of three groundbreaking novels by Arna Bontemps, arguably one of the most versatile black writers of the twentieth century.
- Arna Bontemps
- Simon & Schuster, 2005
- reprint
- God Sends Sunday: A Novel
His first novel, God Sends Sunday (1931), about a jockey who was good with horses but inadequate with people, is considered the final work of the Harlem Renaissance. The novel was dramatized as St. Louis Woman (1946), in collaboration with the poet Countee Cullen.
God Sends Sunday. in The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature Length: 333 words. A novel by Arna Bontemps, God Sends Sunday was published in 1931. According to local legend, Little Augie, born with a caul over his face, is blessed with the double gifts of luck and clair-voyance, but the notion is small solace for the timid, ...
18 de abr. de 2024 · His first novel, God Sends Sunday (1931), about a jockey who was good with horses but inadequate with people, is considered the final work of the Harlem Renaissance. The novel was dramatized as St. Louis Woman (1946), in collaboration with the poet Countee Cullen.
