Novelist, Photographer (17-Jun-1880 — 21-Dec-1964)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Emily Bernard (editor). Remember Me To Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. New York: Knopf. 2001. 400pp.

Edward Burns (editor). The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten. New York: Columbia University Press. 1986. (2 vols.)

Leon Coleman. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Critical Assessment. Taylor & Francis, Inc.. 1998. 185pp.

Scott Cunningham. A Bibliography of the Writings of Carl Van Vechten: With an Overture in the Form of a Funeral March by Carl Van Vechten. Philadelphia, PA: The Centaur Book Shop. 1924. 52pp.

Bruce Kellner. A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1980.

Bruce Kellner. Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 1968. 354pp.

Bruce Kellner (editor). Letters of Carl Van Vechten. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1987. 292pp.

Nancy Kuhl. Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2003. 189pp.

Edward Lueders. Carl Van Vechten and the Twenties. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico. 1955. 150pp.

James Smalls. The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts. Temple University Press. 2006. 240pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers (p.412)

6. Twentieth Century Authors (p.1450)

7. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.788)

8. Who's Who in Lesbian & Gay Writing (p.202)

9. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.1069)

10. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.721)

11. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.755)

12. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.5, p.26)

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