biography
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| lived:
| (1880–1966)
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| biography:
| Writer and photographer, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He studied at the University of Chicago (1899–1903), and worked for the Chicago American newspaper (1903–6). He moved to New York City and became a music critic, then Paris correspondent for the New York Times (1908–9). A long-time friend of Gertrude Stein, he became friendly with many of her circle. He wrote novels about life in New York City such as Nigger Heaven (1926), a work that renewed interest in the cultural life of African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He also became an accomplished photographer in the 1930s, specializing in documentary portraits. |
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