| LC control no. | n 79059813 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3503.O474 |
| Personal name heading | Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1902-10-13 |
| Death date | 1973-06-04 |
| Place of birth | Alexandria (La.) |
| Place of death | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | Fisk University James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters (Yale University) Pacific Union College University of Chicago Yale University |
| Profession or occupation | Librarians Authors Novelists Poets |
| Found in | The Book of Negro folklore, 1983 (a.e.) CIP title page (Arna Bontemps) LC database, Nov. 3, 2010 (hdg.: Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973; usage: Arna Bontemps) Free at last, the life of Frederick Douglass, 1971: title page (Arna Bontemps) page 4 of cover (b. in Louisiana, educated in California and arrived in New York to participate in the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s; head librarian at Fisk University; curator of the James Weldon Johnson Collection; visiting professor at Yale University; author of many books) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Arna Wendell Bontemps; social historian, commentator, children's book writer / illustrator, fiction writer, anthologist, poet; born October 13, 1902 in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States; graduated from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California (1923); moved to Harlem, New York, taught at the Harlem Academy (1924) and began to publish poetry; moved to Huntsville, Alabama (1931), taught for three years at Oakwood Junior College; master's degree in Library Science from the University of Chicago (1943); became head librarian at Fisk University, a post he held until 1964; also accepted positions at the Chicago Circle campus of the University of Illinois and at Yale University, where he served as curator of the James Weldon Johnson Collection of Negro Arts and Letters; died June 04, 1973 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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