Author
Carl Van Vechten
17 June 1880 – 21 December 1964
Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult life, Van Vechten engaged in numerous homosexual affairs over his lifetime.
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Books
30 books
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Lords of the Housetops
1921
Carl Van Vechten, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Guy Whitmore Carryl, Algernon Blackwood, Honoré de Balzac, Booth Tarkington, G. H. Powell, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Allibone Janvier, W. H. Hudson, W. L. Alden, Peggy Bacon, Charles Dudley Warner
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The Borzoi 1920
1920
Alfred a Knopf, Inc, Willa Cather, Floyd Dell, H. L. Mencken, Carl Van Vechten, Conrad Aiken, T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Ezra Pound, Knopf, firm, publishers, New York
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