Word: arna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Arna Wendell Bontemps, 70, prolific black author and a leader of the literary movement of the '20s known as the "Harlem Renaissance"; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. The 1946 musical St. Louis Woman, which presented Pearl Bailey in her first Broadway role, was based on Bontemps' first novel, God Sends Sunday. Poems, plays and biographies flowed from Bontemps' pen, and he was a scholarly anthologist of Negro writing, which he called "the most substantial body of captivity literature in the world since the Bible...
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