Arna Bontemps - Works

Works

(Unless noted otherwise, Bontemps is the main author of the work)

  • God Sends Sunday: A Novel (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1931; New York: Washington Square Press, 2005)
  • Popo and Fifina, Children of Haiti, by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes (New York: Macmillan, 1932; Oxford University Press, 2000)
  • You Can’t Pet a Possum (New York: William Morrow, 1934)
  • Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia 1800 (New York: Macmillan, 1936; reprinted with intro. Arnold Rampersad, Boston: Beacon Press, 1992)
  • Sad-Faced Boy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937)
  • Drums at Dusk: A Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1939; reprinted Baton Rouge, Louisiana:Louisiana State University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8071-3439-9)
  • Golden Slippers: an Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, compiled by Arna Bontemps (New York: Harper & Row, 1941)
  • The Fast Sooner Hound, by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942)
  • They Seek a City (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1945)
  • We Have Tomorrow (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1945)
  • Slappy Hooper, the Wonderful Sign Painter, by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946)
  • Story of the Negro, (New York: Knopf, 1948; New York: Random House, 1963)
  • The Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949: an anthology, edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949)
  • George Washington Carver (Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson, 1950)
  • Father of the Blues: an Autobiography, W.C. Handy, ed. Arna Bontemps (New York: Macmillan, 1941, 1957; Da Capo Press, 1991)
  • Chariot in the Sky: a Story of the Jubilee Singers (Philadelphia: Winston, 1951; London: Paul Breman, 1963; Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
  • Lonesome Boy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955; Beacon Press, 1988)
  • Famous Negro Athletes (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1964)
  • Great Slave Narratives (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969)
  • Hold Fast to Dreams: Poems Old and New Selected by Arna Bontemps (Chicago: Follett, 1969)
  • Mr. Kelso’s Lion (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970)
  • Free at Last: the Life of Frederick Douglass (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971; Apollo Editions, 2000)
  • The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays, Edited, With a Memoir (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972, 1984)
  • Young Booker: Booker T. Washington’s Early Days (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1972)
  • The Old South: "A Summer Tragedy" and Other Stories of the Thirties (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973)

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