Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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