ISBN10: 0679451137, ISBN13: 9780679451136, [publisher: Knopf] Hardcover First Edition A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. As the Harlem Renaissance unfolded in the 1920s, few were closer to its hub than the black poet and playwright Langston Hughes and his white friend and mentor, the writer, photographer and patron of the arts Carl Van Vechten. They met in 1924, as Hughes was first exploding into literary celebrity, and quickly became friends and correspondents; between them, they knew everyone of note among Harlem's cultural figures. Marked by a shared irreverence and taste for the good life, their correspondence offers snapshots of vastly different worlds. Hughes comes across as a true adventurer, finding poetry in the world's byways and forgotten corners; Van Vechten is the quintessential bon vivant, whose refinements emanated from the comfort of his own home. From Publisher's Weekly.
[Langley, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
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