Carl Van Vechten
Author · 17 June 1880 – 21 December 1964 · 96 works
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.
Books by Carl Van Vechten
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
1946
The Blind Bow-Boy
1923
The tiger in the house
1920
Firecrackers
1925
Peter Whiffle
1922
Nigger heaven
1926
Peter Whiffle
1924
The Music of Spain (Library of Music and Musicians)
1918
Lords of the Housetops
1921
Parties
1930
The merry-go-round
1918
Merry-Go-Round
2010
The letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
1986
Tiger in the House
1960
Music and Bad Manners
1916
Music of Spain
1920
Interpreters
1920
Merry-Go-Round
2016
In the garret
1920
Spider boy
1928
The tattooed countess
1924
The Borzoi 1920
1920
Sacred and profane memories
1932
In the Garret
1920
Nigger Heaven
1926
Music and bad manners
1916
Music of Spain
2024
Generations in Black and white
1993
Spider Boy
1928
Excavations
1926
Lords of the Housetops
2014
Caruso's mustache off
2010
The tattooed countess
1924
The Tattooed Countess
1924
Lords of the Housetops
2010
Interpreters
2017
In a Winter City
2010
Interpreters and Interpretations
1917
Music after the Great War, and Other Studies
2018
Tiger in the House
1936