Renaissance Man from Louisiana: A Biography of Arna Wendell Bontemps

by Kirkland C. Jones

In his youth a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Arna Wendell Bontemps matured into a renaissance man in the broadest sense, a person fully engaged in the life of the intellect. He contributed vastly to the culture of his era through his own writings--fiction, plays, poetry, children's books, scholarship, and criticism--and advanced it through teaching, librarianship, and as a sponsor and patron of other artists. This detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313280134
• ISBN13: 9780313280139
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"