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Jun 17, 1880 — Dec 21, 1964· 84 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · MUSIC

Carl Van Vechten

Also known as: Carl van Vechten, Van Vechten, Carl

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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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THE note-books of an artist always make interesting reading.

— from In the garret

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Nigger heaven

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"Here upper-class elites discuss art in well-appointed drawing rooms; rowdy and lascivious drunks spend long nights in jazz clubs and speakeasies; and politically conscious young intellectuals drink coffee and debate "the race problem" in walkup apartments. At the center of the story, two young people - a quiet, serious librarian and a volatile aspiring writer - struggle to love each other as their dreams are slowly suffocated by racism."--BOOK JACKET.

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The tattooed countess

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