Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Carl Van Vechten
Born: June 17, 1880
Died: December 21, 1964 (aged 84)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Nigger Heaven (1926)
- The Blind Bow Boy (1923)
- The tiger in the house (1920)
- Peter Whiffle (1922)
- Parties