Novelist, Poet (13-Oct-1902 — 4-Jun-1973)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Robert E. Fleming (editor). James Weldon Johnson and Arna Wendell Bontemps: A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall. 1978. 149pp.

Kirkland C. Jones. Renaissance Man from Louisiana: A Biography of Arna Wendell Bontemps. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1992. 232pp.

Charles H. Nichols (editor). Arna Bontemps/Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. 1980. 529pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.84)

7. World Authors 1970-1975 (pp.91-94)

8. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.83)

9. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.122)

10. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.76)

11. 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia (pp.62-63)

12. Legends in Their Own Time (p.29)

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