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Arthenia J.
Bates Millican, born, June 1, 1920, in Sumter, South Carolina, the
daughter of Susan Emma David Jackson and Calvin Shepherd Jackson,
returned to Sumter to make her retirement home there after a long and
productive career teaching and writing.
Arthenia's first poem was published when she was only sixteen. A
protegee of Langston Hughes, she went on to write poems and prose,
fiction and non-fiction, articles, reports, letters, and book reviews
over the course of her lifetime. Her short works have appeared in the
National Poetry Anthology,
Essence Magazine, The College Language Association Journal,
The Negro Digest, Black World, Obsidian, and many
others. She was a contributing editor for James Baldwin, A Critical
Evaluation and
Sturdy Black Bridges: A Vision of Black Women in Literature. |
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Her prominent
published works are: |
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Seeds Beneath the Snow
(Greenwich Book Publishers, 1969) a collection of 12 short stories based on
life in the South. |
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The Deity Nodded
(Harlo Press, 1973) a novel based on a young women's search for truth which
leads to a conflict between Islam and Christianity. |
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Such Things
from the Valley
(publisher, 1977) a second volume of short stories |
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Hand on the Throttle:
Touchstones in the Life of Lionel Lee, Sr., Volume 1: Holding On
(biography), 1993. |
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