Generations in Black and White by Rudolph Byrd

Author:Rudolph Byrd [Byrd, Rudolph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780820346175
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2014-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Arna Bontemps

August 15, 1939

Writer, educator, and librarian

Arna Bontemps (1902–73) attended the San Fernando Academy in Los Angeles, California, and in 1923 completed study for his baccalaureate at Pacific Union College. In 1924 he left Los Angeles for Harlem, where he soon met the major figures of the New Negro movement, among them Langston Hughes, with whom he developed a productive and lifelong friendship. Bontemps’s early verse appeared in the Crisis and Opportunity, and he received prizes and awards from both periodicals. In 1930 he accepted his first teaching appointment in the South at Oakwood School in Huntsville, Alabama. In the following year, his first novel, God Sends Sunday, was successfully published and soon after came Black Thunder (1936) and Drums at Dusk (1939). After completing his training in library science at the University of Chicago, Bontemps was appointed head librarian at Fisk University, a position he held for twenty-two years. From 1969 to 1972, he was curator of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters at Yale University. In the last year of his life, Bontemps was writer-in-residence at Fisk University.

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