Carl Van Vechten
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
Three Lives
1909
ISBN 9781892295330
Nigger Heaven
2000
ISBN 9780252068607
Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena
1909
ISBN 9781406510102
Firecrackers
2011
ISBN 9781595692245
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
2013
ISBN 9780231063098
El tigre en la casa
2017
ISBN 9789563651836
The Music of Spain
2024
ISBN 9781040050644
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein, Fiction, Literary
1909
ISBN 9781598180428
Extravagant Crowd
2003
ISBN 9780845731482
Remember Me to Harlem
2007
ISBN 9780307427441
Caruso's Mustache Off
2010
ISBN 9781595690708
Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales
2016
ISBN 9781473346659
Music and Bad Manners
2023
ISBN 9781805230083
Parties Scenes From Contemporary New York Life
2023
ISBN 9781805232520
The Blind Bow-Boy
2025
ISBN 9783989737235
Three Lives & Q. E. D.
2005
ISBN 9780393979039