Arna Bontemps

47 books

Fire!! by Edward Silvera, Aaron Douglas, Wallace Thurman, Waring Cuney, Helene Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Lewis Alexander, Arna Bontemps, Richard Bruce Nugent

Fire!!

Edward Silvera, Aaron Douglas, Wallace Thurman, Waring Cuney, Helene Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Lewis Alexander, Arna Bontemps, Richard Bruce Nugent

48 pages • first pub 1926 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, The Rev. G. W. Offley, and James L. Smith by Arna Bontemps

Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, The Rev. G. W. Offley, and James L. Smith

Arna Bontemps

240 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced
The Forerunners: Black Poets in America by Woodie King
The Forerunners: Black Poets in America
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Woodie King

The Forerunners: Black Poets in America

Woodie King

160 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass by Arna Bontemps

Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass

Arna Bontemps

310 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
God Sends Sunday by Arna Bontemps

God Sends Sunday

Arna Bontemps

201 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

fiction emotional reflective medium-paced
Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers by Arna Bontemps
Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers
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Arna Bontemps

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers

Arna Bontemps

missing page info • first pub 1941 (editions)

poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
Great African American Literary Voices by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez
Great African American Literary Voices
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Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez

Great African American Literary Voices

Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez

missing duration info • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays, by Arna Bontemps

The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays,

Arna Bontemps

310 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (Loa #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder by Rafia Zafar, George Schuyler, Langston Hughes, Rudolph Fisher, Arna Bontemps

Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (Loa #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder

Rafia Zafar, George Schuyler, Langston Hughes, Rudolph Fisher, Arna Bontemps

800 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction reflective medium-paced
Hold Fast to Dreams by Arna Bontemps
Hold Fast to Dreams
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Arna Bontemps

Hold Fast to Dreams

Arna Bontemps

missing page info • first pub 1979 (editions)

poetry emotional reflective medium-paced