The Merry-Go-Round (Dodo Press) Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. In 1906, he moved to New York City and was hired as the assistant music critic at the New York Times. He took a leave of absence from the paper in 1907, to travel to Europe to explore his interest in opera. He returned in 1909 and then became the first American critic of modern dance. Several books of Van Vechten"s essays on various subjects such as music and literature were published starting in 1915 with Music After the Great War. He was interested in black writers and artists, and knew and promoted many of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Wallace Thurman. His controversial novel Nigger Heaven was published in 1926. His other works include: Music and Bad Manners (1916), Interpreters and Interpretations (1917), The Merry-Go-Round (1918), In the Garret (1919), The Tiger in the House (1920), Peter Whiffle (1922), Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel (1925), Spider Boy (1928), Parties (1930) and Sacred and Profane Memories (1932). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Merry-Go-Round (Dodo Press) (Carl Van Vechten)