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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Music, Biography, Fiction, History and criticism, American Authors, Cats, African Americans, Authors, american, Photographers, Portraits, Singers, Van vechten, carl, 1880-1964, African americans, fiction, American Novelists, American Portraits, Ballet, Bibliography, Dance, English Authors, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, History, Music critics, Musicians, OperaPlaces
New York (N.Y.), United States, Connecticut, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Iowa, New Haven, New York, New York (State), SpainPeople
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Peter whiffle, Wacław Niziński, Waslaw Nijinski (1890-1950), Waslaw Nijinsky (1890-1950)Time
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- OLID: OL28173A
- ISNI: 0000000115587789
- VIAF: 5056030
- Wikidata: Q312851
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q312851
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- Carl van Vechten
- Van Vechten, Carl
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