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Cohen, Rachel, 1973-

A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967 / Rachel Cohen.

1st ed.

New York : Random House, ©2004.

xvii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Dedicates a chapter each to meaningful encounters between significant writers and artists, including Henry James and Matthew Brady, Willa Cather and Mark Twain, and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Friendship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Artists -- United States -- Biography.

Arts, American -- 20th century.

United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and index.

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 Moore -- 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.

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