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A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967 / Rachel Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Rachel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Friendship.
- History.
- United States.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Friendship--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Arts, American--20th century.
- Arts, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2004]
- Summary:
- This unique American cultural history defines relationships among writers and artists who knew and influenced each other over the course of a century: 1854-1967.
- Contents:
- Henry James and Mathew Brady
- William Dean Howells and Annie Adams Fields and Walt Whitman
- Mathew Brady and Ulysses S. Grant
- William Dean Howells and Henry James
- Walt Whitman and Mathew Brady
- Mark Twain and William Dean Howells
- Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant
- W.E.B. Du Bois and William James
- Gertrude Stein and William James
- Henry James and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett
- Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz
- Willa Cather and Mark Twain
- Willa Cather and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett
- Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Stein
- Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein
- Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Steiglitz
- Willa Cather and Edward Steichen and Katherine Anne Porter
- Alfred Stieglitz and Hart Crane
- Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin
- Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
- Beauford Delaney and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Hart Crane and Katherine Anne Porter
- Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Morore
- Zora Neale Hurston and Carl Van Vechten
- Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp
- Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
- Joseph Cornell and Marianne Moore
- James Baldwin and Norman Mailer
- Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
- John Cage and Richard Avedon
- W.E.B. Du Bois and Charlie Chaplin
- Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten and Richard Avedon
- Richard Avedon and James Baldwin
- Marianne Moore and Norman Mailer
- John Cage and Marcel Duchamp
- Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1400061644
- OCLC:
- 52644502
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