Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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