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Chariot in the Sky

A Story of the Jubilee Singers

Chariot in the Sky( )
Author: Bontemps, Arna
Foreword by: Lewis, David Levering
As told to: Ward, Andrew
Series title:The ^AIona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-515658-4
Publication Date:May 2002
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $25.99
Book Description:

Written in 1951 by Arna Bontemps, major literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance and close friend of Langston Hughes, Chariot in the Sky tells the story of the Jubilee Singers through the life of a young slave boy, Caleb, who becomes one of their earliest members.

Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / African American & Black
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.655 x 8.229 x 0.975 Inches
Book Weight:0.924 Pounds
Author Biography
Bontemps, Arna (Author)
Arna Bontemps was one of many African American writers associated with Fisk University, where he taught for 20 years. He became a visiting professorship at Yale University and returned to Fisk to spend the last years of his life there. Bontemps grew up in the South and wrote of the condition and spirit of the southern black in memoirs and in fiction.

His historical and topical novel Black Thunder (1936) is perhaps his best known, along with Drums at Dusk (1935). As an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance, however, Bontemps wrote prolifically in all genres and for children as well as adults. He produced several important collections of narratives about enslaved people and African American folk tales. Bontemps was a major anthologizer of Harlem Renaissance work and helped shape the new black writing as theoretician and critic.

Bontemps died in 1973.

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