Arna Bontemps

35 books

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, Arna Bontemps

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson, Arna Bontemps

fiction autobiography classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced

212 pages | first published 1912

Black Thunder by Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

Black Thunder

Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced

248 pages | first published 1968

The Book of Negro Folklore by Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps

The Book of Negro Folklore

Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps

nonfiction short stories informative inspiring tense medium-paced

624 pages | first published 1958

Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work by Horace A. Porter

Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work

Horace A. Porter with Langston Hughes (Contributor), John Edgar Wideman (Contributor), James Baldwin (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), Richard Wright (Contributor), Martha Southgate (Contributor), Ishmael Reed (Contributor), Walter Mosley (Contributor), Charles Johnson (Contributor), Ernest J. Gaines (Contributor), James Weldon Johnson (Contributor), Arna Bontemps (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Margaret Walker (Contributor), James Alan McPherson (Contributor), Terry McMillan (Contributor), Toni Morrison (Contributor), Gayl Jones (Contributor), W.E.B. Du Bois (Contributor), Chester Himes (Contributor), Ralph Ellison (Contributor)

nonfiction essays informative medium-paced

240 pages | first published 2015

Great Slave Narratives by Arna Bontemps

Great Slave Narratives

Arna Bontemps

nonfiction biography history challenging slow-paced

331 pages | first published 1969

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans by Toi Derricotte, Langston Hughes, Randall Dudley, Ishmael Reed, James Weldon Johnson, Quincy Troupe, Lucille Clifton, Mari Evans, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, Margaret Walker, Richard Wright, Benny Andrews, Frank Marshall Davis, Lance Jeffers, Etheridge Knight, Primus St. John, Michael S. Harper, Samuel W. Allen, George Love, Arnold Adoff, Robert Hayden, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sam Cornish, Fenton Johnson, Sterling A. Brown, Quandra Prettyman, Raymond Richard Patterson, Calvin C. Hernton, Claude McKay, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ray Durem, Al Young, Audre Lorde, Arna Bontemps, Maya Angelou, Conrad Kent Rivers, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Myron O'Higgins, I.A., Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Owen Dodson, Haki Madhubuti, Robert A. Davis, Joseph White, Rita Dove, Rudine Sims Bishop, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Toi Derricotte, Langston Hughes, Randall Dudley, Ishmael Reed, James Weldon Johnson, Quincy Troupe, Lucille Clifton, Mari Evans, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, Margaret Walker, Richard Wright, Benny Andrews, Frank Marshall Davis, Lance Jeffers, Etheridge Knight, Primus St. John, Michael S. Harper, Samuel W. Allen, George Love, Arnold Adoff, Robert Hayden, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sam Cornish, Fenton Johnson, Sterling A. Brown, Quandra Prettyman, Raymond Richard Patterson, Calvin C. Hernton, Claude McKay, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ray Durem, Al Young, Audre Lorde, Arna Bontemps, Maya Angelou, Conrad Kent Rivers, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Myron O'Higgins, I.A., Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Owen Dodson, Haki Madhubuti, Robert A. Davis, Joseph White, Rita Dove, Rudine Sims Bishop, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni

nonfiction poetry young adult challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

192 pages | first published 1968

The New Negro by Willis Richardson, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Elise Johnson McDougold, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Lewis Alexander, Kelly Miller, E. Franklin Frazier, J.A. Rogers, Angelina Weld Grimké, Rudolph Fisher, Eric Walrond, Richard Bruce Nugent, Melville J. Herskovits, Walter Francis White, Claude McKay, Helene Johnson, Montgomery Gregory, W.A. Domingo, Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Albert C. Barnes, Charles S. Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Arthur A. Schomburg, Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Jean Toomer, Alain LeRoy Locke, Robert Russa Moton, Cujo Lewis, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anne Spencer, Georgia Johnson

The New Negro

Willis Richardson, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Elise Johnson McDougold, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Lewis Alexander, Kelly Miller, E. Franklin Frazier, J.A. Rogers, Angelina Weld Grimké, Rudolph Fisher, Eric Walrond, Richard Bruce Nugent, Melville J. Herskovits, Walter Francis White, Claude McKay, Helene Johnson, Montgomery Gregory, W.A. Domingo, Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Albert C. Barnes, Charles S. Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Arthur A. Schomburg, Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Jean Toomer, Alain LeRoy Locke, Robert Russa Moton, Cujo Lewis, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anne Spencer, Georgia Johnson

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

452 pages | first published 1925

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes with Maya Angelou (Contributor), Arna Bontemps (Contributor)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective medium-paced

299 pages | first published 1930

Popo and Fifina by Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

Popo and Fifina

Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

fiction childrens emotional medium-paced

128 pages | first published 1932

Story of the Negro by Raymond Lufkin, Arna Bontemps

Story of the Negro

Raymond Lufkin, Arna Bontemps

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

239 pages | first published 1948