The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

by Edward White and Edward White

Book Overview

A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A close confidant of Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, George...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374201579
• ISBN13: 9780374201579
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"