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Friends, Associates | Isak Dinesen | Dinesen was fascinated by Monroe's prettiness, vitality, and innocence: they reminded her, she said, of a lion cub. The old and the young woman danced together (though not, as legend relates, on the table). Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ . 5 February 2008 |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often... |
Friends, Associates | Zora Neale Hurston | Mason was also the patron of Langston Hughes
, Louise Thompson
, and others. ZNH
's friends, both black and white, and many of them influential in various ways, also included Carl Van Vechten
and... |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | At the end of the Second World War, GS
and Alice Toklas made friends with a great number of American soldiers who were passing through Culoz. When they finally returned to Paris, the army followed... |
Publishing | Gertrude Stein | The New York premiere followed by a couple of weeks a performance at Hartford, Connecticut.This publication (which contains an introduction by Carl Van Vechten
) was a slightly abridged reprint of the 1929 version... |
Publishing | Gertrude Stein | In her will GS
instructed her executors, Alice Toklas
and Allan Stein
, to pay Carl Van Vechten
whatever he needed to have all her manuscripts published. Donald Gallup
, curator of the Collection of American Literature |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | Things As They Are was GS
's first mature literary work, written in 1903 and originally entitled Q. E. D. Q. E. D. stands for Quod Erat Demonstrandum (this is what was to be... |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | The series was published under the general editorship of Carl Van Vechten
, with an advisory committee whose members were Donald C. Gallup
, Donald Sutherland
, and Thornton Wilder
. |
Textual Production | Zora Neale Hurston | In this text Hurston traces the inner life of her central character, Arvay Henson. The author told Carl Van Vechten
in a private letter that she chose a white heroine because I have hopes of... |
Textual Production | Zora Neale Hurston | The title quotes from ZNH
herself, writing to Carl Van Vechten
about her experience while sitting for a photograph that became famous. Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa. “Iconography”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xx , No. 8, May 2003, pp. 8-9. 9 |
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