Arna Bontemps | 1902-1973 1931 - God Sends Sunday Novel Later dramatized by Countee Cullen as St. Louis Woman in 1946. 1936 - Black Thunder One of his best known works, Black Thunder is an historical novel about slaves and rebellion in Virginia in 1800. 1939 - Drums at Dusk Novel 1945 - They Seek a City With Jack Conroy Nonfiction 1948 - The Story of the Negro Nonfiction 1951 - Sam Patch With Jack Conroy For children 1958 - The Book of Negro Folklore Co-editor with Langston Hughes 1961 - 100 Years of Negro Freedom 1972 - The Harlem Renaissance             Remembered: Essays Memoirs