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'''Arna Wendell Bontemps''' (1902–73) was an American author.  His works include ''God Sends Sunday'' (1931), ''Drums at Dusk'' (1939), ''Sam Patch'' (1951), and ''One Hundred Years of Negro Freedom'' (1961).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>

'''Arna Wendell Bontemps''' (1902–73) was a mixed-race writer of the Harlem Renaissance who studied the black culture of old Virginia and the Caribbean.  His works include ''God Sends Sunday'' (1931), ''Drums at Dusk'' (1939), ''Sam Patch'' (1951), and ''One Hundred Years of Negro Freedom'' (1961).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>

==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in [[Alexandria, Louisiana]] to a black brick mason father and a European-Indian mother.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/arna-bontemps-39864</ref>  At age three, his family moved to [[Los Angeles]], where he refused to go into his father's trade, was sent to a white boarding school, and later graduated Pacific Union College with a BA in 1923.<ref>http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/arna_bontemps/biography</ref>  He moved to Harlem, New York, married, and accepted a teaching job during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], where he met [[W.E.B. DuBois]], [[Countee Cullen]], and his best friend, [[Langston Hughes]].<ref>https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/arna-bontemps</ref>  He won poetry prizes from ''The Crisis'' and ''Opportunity'' there, but moved to Huntsville, Alabama during the Depression, and later to Tennessee.<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/arna-bontemps</ref>

Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in [[Alexandria, Louisiana]] to a black brick mason father and a European-Indian mother.<ref>"Arna Bontemps."  ''Biography.com'' http://www.biography.com/people/arna-bontemps-39864</ref>  At age three, his family moved to [[Los Angeles]], where he refused to go into his father's trade, was sent to a white boarding school, and later graduated Pacific Union College with a BA in 1923.<ref>"Arna Bontemps - Biography."  ''Famous Poets and Poems''.

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/arna_bontemps/biography</ref>  He moved to Harlem, New York, married, and accepted a teaching job during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], where he met [[W.E.B. DuBois]], [[Countee Cullen]], and his best friend, [[Langston Hughes]].<ref>"Bontemps, Arna."  ''Poets''. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/arna-bontemps</ref>  He won poetry prizes from ''The Crisis'' and ''Opportunity'' there, but moved to Huntsville, Alabama during the Depression, and later to Tennessee.<ref>"Bontemps, Arna -

Detail."  ''Poetry Foundation''.  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/arna-bontemps</ref>

He began to write novels with ''Chariot in the Cloud'' (1929), which was rejected, and became very famous for ''God Sends Sunday'' and ''Popo and Fifina:  Children of Haiti'' (1932), a children's book co-written by Langston Hughes.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/arna-bontemps</ref>  His ''God Sends Sunday'' described a black jockey of the 1890s called Little Augie and his losing his luck in Mudtown, a fictitious suburb of Watts, California.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/arna-bontemps</ref>  His next novels, ''Black Thunder'' (1936) and ''Drums at Dusk'', were about slave revolts in Virginia and Haiti, respectively.<ref>"Bontemps, Arna."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  One of his best known works his the children's history ''Story of the Negro'' (1949), a Newbery winner.<ref>http://www.librarypoint.org/author_arna_bontemps</ref>

He began to write novels with ''Chariot in the Cloud'' (1929), which was rejected, and became very famous for ''God Sends Sunday'' and ''Popo and Fifina:  Children of Haiti'' (1932), a children's book co-written by Langston Hughes.<ref name="pedia">"Bontemps, Arna."

''Encyclopedia:  Literature and Arts, American Literature''.  http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/arna-bontemps</ref>  His ''God Sends Sunday'' described a black jockey of the 1890s called Little Augie and his losing his luck in Mudtown, a fictitious suburb of Watts, California.<ref name="pedia"></ref>  His next novels, ''Black Thunder'' (1936) and ''Drums at Dusk'', were about slave revolts in Virginia and Haiti, respectively.<ref>"Bontemps, Arna."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  One of his best known works his the children's history ''Story of the Negro'' (1949), a Newbery winner.<ref>Johnson, Virginia.

"Arna Bontemps Left a Rich Literary Legacy." http://www.librarypoint.org/author_arna_bontemps</ref>

He died on June 4, 1973, in Nashville, Tennessee, while working on his autobiography.

He died on June 4, 1973, in Nashville, Tennessee, while working on his autobiography.

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