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Remember Me to Harlem - Annotated by Langston Hughes & Carl Van Vechten (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal.
  • About the Author: Emily Bernard lives in Burlington, Vermont.
  • 400 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless.
Despite their differences -- Van Vechten was forty-four to Hughes twenty-two when they met-Hughes' and Van Vechten's shared interest in black culture lead to a deeply-felt, if unconventional friendship that would span some forty years. Between them they knew everyone -- from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright, and their letters, lovingly and expertly collected here for the first time, are filled with gossip about the antics of the great and the forgotten, as well as with talk that ranged from race relations to blues lyrics to the nightspots of Harlem, which they both loved to prowl. It's a correspondence that, as Emily Bernard notes in her introduction, provides "an unusual record of entertainment, politics, and culture as seen through the eyes of two fascinating and irreverent men.



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"Meticulously annotated...serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents."-The New York Times Book Review

"Much of the history of race relations-and literary history-in America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship."-The Washington Post

"Remember Me to Harlem is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leading-and most intriguing-characters." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.


"If you're interested in the Harlem Renaissance, you can't afford to miss this book."-Vibe

"Remember Me to Harlem serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents." --David Levering Lewis, The New York Times Book Review

"A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide" -The Miami Herald




About the Author



Emily Bernard lives in Burlington, Vermont.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.96 Inches (H) x 5.26 Inches (W) x .89 Inches (D)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 400
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Langston Hughes & Carl Van Vechten
Language: English
Street Date: February 5, 2002
TCIN: 1001353960
UPC: 9780375727078
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-8151
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.89 inches length x 5.26 inches width x 7.96 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.81 pounds
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