Birthplace home of Arna Wendell Bontemps
Alexandria, Louisiana

Arna Wendell Bontemps
1902-1973
Photograph Courtesy:
Aran Bontemps Museum

Drums at Dusk (1929)

Cavalcade of the American Negro (1940)
Edited by Arna Bontemps

Anywhere But Here
by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy
Originally published in 1945 as They Seek a City, this classic
was revised and expanded in 1966 to include chapters on
Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcolm X,
 and the racial disturbances in Detroit, Chicago, and Watts.

The Pasteboard Bandit
by Arna Bontemps, Alex Bontemps, and Langston Hughes

Bubber Goes to Heaven
by Arna Bontemps
Illustrated by Daniel Minter