# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-van-vechten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:14.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-van-vechten"
name: "Carl Van Vechten"
slug: "carl-van-vechten"
description: "Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult years, Van Vechten engaged in numerous affairs with other men during his lifetime."
tagline: "American writer and photographer (1880–1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Self-Portrait_of_Carl_Van_Vechten_Crisco_edit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1880-06-17"
deathDate: "1964-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.855744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump