Carl Van Vechten, a familiar figure among New York City’s literary and artistic circles in the early 20th century, tried his hand as a novelist, critic and journalist, to varying results, before ...

For more that two decades, author Emily Bernard has been fascinated by Carl Van Vechten, a white man who played a seminal — and controversial — role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ...

How did Carl Van Vechten—a white man from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a latecomer to photography—become the premier portraitist of the Harlem Renaissance’s black luminaries? It took a slightly ...

A new biography suggests Carl Van Vechten pushed the nation's cultural values forward by ... as opposed to just his work and his relationships with major figures of the Harlem Renaissance. ...

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the first cohesive cultural movements in African-American history, but white support was the grease that kept its wheels in motion. Enter Carl Van Vechten, critic ...

One of the few white members of the Harlem Renaissance, Carl Van Vechten chronicled the changing times of the 1920s and ’30s in many ways: as a music and dance critic, as a novelist and later as ...

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Remember Me to Harlem:The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. Edited by Emily Bernard Knopf 356 pp.