Carl Van Vechten
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 60 years ago |
Date of birth | June 17,1880 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Cedar Rapids |
Iowa | |
United States | |
Date of died | December 21,1964 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Spouse | Fania Marinoff |
Anna Elizabeth Snyder | |
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ID | 997041 |
Carl Van Vechten Life story
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 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people.