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Van Vechten, Carl

2,213 words, approx. 8 pages

Carl Van Vechten Born June 17, 1880 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Died December 21, 1964 New York, New York American literary and music critic, novelist, photographer, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance Ca... Read more

Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)

165 words, approx. 1 pages

Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964) Carl Van Vechten was, in the course of his lifetime, a music, dance, and literary critic, a novelist, and a photographer. He was an early aficionado of ragtime and jazz a... Read more

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Carl Van Vechten

1,758 words, approx. 6 pages

American author and photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a champion of modern music and dance in the early years of the twentieth century, and went on to enjoy critical acclaim for his witty ... Read more

Carl Van Vechten

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Carl Van Vechten, one of America's most eclectic men of letters, published six novels, two works on cats, and eleven collections of his critical essays on the arts. Although comfortable enough as the ... Read more

Carl Van Vechten

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In her memoir of the literary 1920s, Emily Clark referred to Carl Van Vechten as the most successful New Yorker of her acquaintance. "One of Carl's gifts," she wrote, "is to be a complete and satisfie... Read more

Carl Van Vechten

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Most of the readers--black as well as white--who made Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven a best-selling novel in 1926 were unaware that his interest in the creative achievements of Afro-Americans had be... Read more