As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

He returned to his job at the New York Times in 1909 and then became the first American critic of modern dance. His essay "Negro Blues Singers" was publiCarl Van Vechtend in Vanity Fair in 1926. Carl Van Vechten (June 17 1880 – December 21 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.

Carl Van Vechten (June 17 1880 – December 21 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.