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The Splendid Drunken Twenties
This generous, representative sampling from the daybooks of Carl Van Vechten, one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance, is a rich resource and major reference tool for reconstructing the culture of 1920s New York, the social milieu during Prohibition, and more. Bruce Kellner has provided copious, informative notes identifying central figures and clarifying details.Between 1922 and 1930, Van Vechten kept a daily record of his activities. Not exactly diaries, but more than appointment books, the daybooks record his daily comings and goings as well as the alliances, drinking habits, feuds, and affairs of a wide number of luminaries of the period. They catalog tales of bootlegging, literary teas, shifting cliques of artists and writers, cabaret slumming, sexual and social peccadilloes, and a seemingly endless sequence of parties.
William Faulkner in Hollywood
A scholarly examination of the scripts and fiction Faulkner created during his foray as a Hollywood screenwriter. During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked on approximately fifty screenplays for major Hollywood studios and was credited on such classics as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. Faulkner's film scripts—and later television scripts—constitute an extensive and, until now, thoroughly underexplored archival source. Stefan Solomon analyzes the majority of these scripts and also compares them to the fiction Faulkner was writing concurrently. His aim: to reconcile two aspects of a career that were not as distinct as they first might seem: Faulkner the scr...
The First Five Hogle Families in America and Their Descendants
James Hogill is believed to be the first Hogle in America. He was born in about 1686. He married Ellin Dwyer in 1706 in Talbot County, Maryland. They had four children. Four Hogel brothers were born in New York from about 1715 to 1725. Their parents names are not known. They are Johannes, Edward, Barent and Pieter. The main focus of the history is on the descendants of Pieter, who was born in about 1725. He married Catharina Vosburgh, daughter of Abraham Vosburgh and Geertje Van Den Bergh, in about 1746. They had ten children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New York, Illinois and Indiana.
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