Van Vechten
Americannoun
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He provides as examples the work of writers Carl Van Vechten, Flannery O’Connor and Mark Twain, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, comedian Lenny Bruce and a number of others.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
Ultimately, Van Vechten said, there might not be much to worry about — as such a split would be the first division of a state since the founding of West Virginia in 1863.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2018
Friday-Sunday: As part of the celebration leading up to the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten" opens the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2016
In the show’s most chilling wink, he makes the white Harlem Renaissance gadfly Carl Van Vechten into a villainous scold who attacks the show while damning it to irrelevance.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2016
I saw the Hessian baron t' other night, Margarita," said Stephen's best boy-friend, Abram Van Vechten; "he never could play at Santa Claus.
From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Brooks, Elbridge Streeter
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