American Missionary Association Archives in Fisk University
Library. By Arna Bontemps, librarian. Nashville: Fisk
University. Library, 1947.
American Negro Poetry. Edited and
with an introduction by Arna Bontemps. Hill and Wang 1974, 1963; paper ed.
1996; Turtleback Books, distributed by Demco Media, 1974.
Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A.: 200 Years. [sound recording] Folkways Records FP 91-2, 1955.
Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young People. [sound
recording] Edited and read by Arna Bontemps. Folkways Records FC 7114,
1958.
An Anthology of African
American Poetry for Young People.
[cassette] Smithsonian Folkways 45044
Anyplace
but Here By Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy. New York: Hill and
Wang, c1966; paper ed. Columbia: University of Missouri, 1997.
Arna Wendell Bontemps Reading His Poems with Comment at Radio Station WPLN, Nashville Public Library, May 22, 1963. [sound recording] Library of Congress. Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. By James Weldon
Johnson; adapted by Arna Bontemps. pa ed. Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
1989.
Black Thunder; Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia
1800 Boston: Beacon Press, 1992 ed., 1968 ed; paper ed. Beacon, 1992;
Berlin:
Seven Seas Publishers 1964 ed; New York: Macmillan, c1936.
The Book of Negro Folklore. Edited by Langston Hughes
and Arna Bontemps. New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1983; pa ed. W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, 1983; New York:
Dodd, Mead, c1958.
The Book of Negro Folklore. [microform] Edited by Langston
Hughes and Arna Bontemps. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1958
Bubber Goes to Heaven. Illustrations by Daniel Minter; introduction by Jim Haskins; afterword by Charles L. James. New York: Oxford University Press, c1998. [Juvenile Fiction; Ages 9-12]
Chariot in the
Sky; A Story of the Jubilee Singers Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. 1st
ed. Philadelphia:
Winston, c1951.
Drums at Dusk : A Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1939.
Famous Negro Athletes. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1964.
Fast Sooner Hound. By Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy; illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. [Juv. Fiction]
Five Black Lives; The Autobiographies of Venture Smith,
James Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G. W. Offley, [and]
James L. Smith. With introduction by Arna Bontemps.
1st ed. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1971; paper
University Press of New England, 1971.
Frederick Douglass;
Slave, Fighter,
Freeman Illustrated by Harper Johnson. 1st ed. New York: Knopf,
1959. [Juvenile Biography]
Father of the Blues; An Autobiography By W. C.
Handy; edited by Arna Bontemps. paper ed. New York: Da Capo Pr.,
1991; New York: Da Capo Pr., 1985; New York: Collier Books, 1970; New
York: The Macmillan Company, c1941.
Free At Last; The Life of Frederick Douglass. New York:
Dodd, Mead, 1971
George Washington Carver. Illustrated by
Cleveland L. Woodward. Evanston, IL: Peterson, 1950.
God Sends Sunday. New York: AMS Press, 1972; New York:
Harcourt, Brace, c1931.
Golden
Slippers; An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers.
Drawings by Henrietta Bruce. New York: Harper, 1941.
Great Slave Narratives. Selected and introduced by Arna
Bontemps. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969; paper ed. Beacon, 1971; pa.
Beacon, 1990.
The Harlem Renaissance Remembered; Essays. Edited, with a
memoir, by Arna Bontemps. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984, c1972.
Hold Fast to Dreams; Poems Old and New. Selected by Arna
Bontemps. Chicago: Follett, 1969.
How You Get T.B.. [N.p., n.d]. Octavo. 4pp. Stamped by
Oklahoma Tuberculosis and Health Association. [Citation from Amazon Book Company.
In the Beginning.
[sound recording] By Shalom
Asch; narrated by Arna Bontemps. Recorded ed. Folkways Records FC 7105,
c1955.
Joseph and His Brothers. [sound recording] By Shalom Asch; narrated by Arna Wendell Bontemps. Folkways Records FC 7106, c1955.
Lonesome
Boy. Illustrated by Feliks Topolski. Boston: Beacon Press,
1988; Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1955.
Mr. Kelso's Lion. Illustrated by Len Ebert. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970.
100 Years of Negro Freedom.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980, c1961.
"Old
Myths, New Negroes". Top News 26. 2 (January, 1970):
138-147.
The Old South; "A Summer Tragedy" and Other Stories of the
Thirties. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973.
The
Pasteboard Bandit. By Arna Bontemps and Langston
Hughes; illustrated by Peggy Turley. New York:
Oxford University Press,
1997. [Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature]
Personals. 2nd ed. London: P. Breman, 1973; 1st ed. 1963.
The
Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949; An Anthology. Edited by Langston
Hughes and Arna
Bontemps. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949; Rev. and updated
ed. 1970.
Popo and Fifina. By Arna
Bontemps and Langston Hughes; illustrated by E.
Simms Campbell. Reissue ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. [Iona
and Peter
Opie Library of
Children's Literature]; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932.
The Sad-Faced Boy Illustrated by Virginia
Lee Burton. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1937.
Sam Patch, The High, Wide and Handsome Jumper. By Arna Bontemps and
Jack Conroy; illustrated by Paul Brown. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1951; Special ed. E. M. Hale, 1951.
Slappy Hooper; The Wonderful Sign Painter By Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy; pictures by Ursula Koering. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
The Story of George Washington Carver. Illustrated by
Harper Johnson. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954. [Juvenile
Biography]
Story
of the Negro Illustrated by Raymond Lufkin. 2nd ed., enl. New York:
Knopf, 1955; 1st ed. New York: Knopf,
1948.
They Seek a City. 1st ed. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1945.
We Have Tomorrow. Illustrated with photographs by Marian Palfi.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1945.
You Can't Pet a Possum. New York: W. Morrow and Company,
1934.
Young Booker; Booker T. Washington's
Early Days New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1972.
About Arna Bontemps
Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967 Selected and edited by Charles H. Nichols. 1st pbk. ed. New York: Paragon House, 1990, c1980.
Fleming, Robert E. James Weldon Johnson and Arna Wendell
Bontemps; A Reference Guide
Jones,
Kirkland C. Renaissance Man from Louisiana;
A Biography of Arna Wendell Bontemps Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992.
[Contributions
in Afro-American and African
Studies]
Articles about Bontemps
Alvarez, J. A. "The Lonesome Boy Theme as Emblem for Arna Bontemps' Children's Literature." African American Review 32. 1 (Spring 1998): 23.
Bader, Joan. "History Changes Color: A Story in Three
Parts. (Remembering African American Educators Carter
Woodson and Arna Bontemps on the Occasion of Black
History Month)." The Horn Book Magazine (January
11, 1997).
Carleton-Alexander, S. "Arna Bontemps: The
Novelist Revisited." CLA Journal 34. 3 (March 1, 1991): 317.
Conroy, J. "Memories
of Arna Bontemps; Friend and Collaborator." American Libraries
5. 11 (December 1974): 602-6.
Davis, M. K.
"Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder: The Creation
of an Authoritative Text of 'Gabriel's Defeat'." Black American
Literature Forum 23. 1 (Spring 1989): 17.
Evans, E. "The
Existential Dimensions of Afro-American Literature"
ERIC 1975, ED106876.
Harris, V. . "From
Little Black Sambo to Pope
and Fifina: Arna Bontemps and the Creation of African-American Children's
Literature." The Lion and the Unicorn 14. 1 (June 1, 1990):
108.
Reagan, D. "Voices of Silence: The Representation of Orality
in
Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder." Studies in American Fiction 19. 1
(Spring,
1991): 71.
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