114th birthday of Arna Bontemps

(Born 13 October 1902, Alexandria, Louisiana, US)

Award-winning prolific poet, novelist, children’s writer, editor, biographer, historian, and librarian, whose work plays a cardinal role in the emergence of contemporary African American letters

(Andrew Hill Quartet, “Cantarnos” [personnel: Hill, piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone;  Richard Davis, bass; Roy Haynes, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 8 November 1963]) 

Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe

113th birthday of Arna Bontemps

(Born 13 October 1902, Alexandria, Louisiana, US)

Award-winning prolific poet, novelist, children’s writer, editor, biographer, historian, and librarian, whose work plays a cardinal role in the emergence of contemporary African American letters

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

112th birthday of Arna Bontemps

(Born 13 October 1902, Alexandria, Louisiana, US)

Award-winning prolific poet, novelist, children’s writer, editor, biographer, historian, and librarian, whose work plays a cardinal role in the emergence of contemporary African American letters

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe