Arna Bontemps
Author
(1902 - 1973)
Arnaud “Arna” Wendell Bontemps was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
Bibliography
The Fast Sooner Hound (1942)
’You couldn’t see a thing for steam, cinders and smoke’ and the ‘rails sang like a violin for half an hour’ after the Cannon Ball passed, but the fast Sooner hound left it in his dust.
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Jack Conroy
Sad-Faced Boy (1937)
Three young boys hop a freight in Alabama to visit their Uncle Jasper Tappin in Harlem.
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