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
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Van Vechten, Carl
Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten