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Carl van Vechten

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in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The United States

June 17, 1880

Died

December 21, 1964

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Carl van Vechten (B.A., University of Chicago, 1903) was a photographer, music-dance critic, novelist, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance who served as literary executor for Gertrude Stein.

Van Vechten was among the most influential literary figures of the 1910s and 1920s. He began his career in journalism as a reporter, then in 1906 joined The New York Times as assistant music critic and later worked as its Paris correspondent. His early reviews are collected in Interpreters and Interpretations (1917 and 1920) and Excavations: A Book of Advocacies (1926). His first novel, Peter Whiffle (1922), a first-person account of the salon and bohemian culture of New York and Paris and clearly drawn from Van Vechten's own experiences, an ...more

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	The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics) by Carl van Vechten, Stephen Budiansky (Introduction) 3.53 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1920 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nigger Heaven by Carl van Vechten, Kathleen Pfeiffer (Introduction) 3.37 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1926 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parties 3.65 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1930 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales 3.46 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1921 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Bow-Boy 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1923 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tattooed Countess 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1924 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1922 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firecrackers 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1925 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten by Carl van Vechten, Keith F. Davis 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.”
― Carl Van Vechten, The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat

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“Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?”
― Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works

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“A thing of beauty is a boy forever.”
― Carl Van Vechten, Blind Bow-Boy

tags: boys

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