Arna Bontemps (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Bontemps was a prolific author and editor. He wrote or cowrote many children’s books, biographies, and histories. He edited or coedited more than a dozen works, including African American poetry anthologies, histories, slave narratives, and a folklore collection. His short stories were collected in The Old South (1973), and his poetry collection, Personals, appeared in 1963. He and Countée Cullen adapted Bontemps’s novel God Sends Sunday for the New...
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