Van Vechten

[ van vek-tuhn ]

noun

1. Carl, 1880–1964, U.S. author.

Example Sentences

He provides as examples the work of writers Carl Van Vechten, Flannery O’Connor and Mark Twain, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, comedian Lenny Bruce and a number of others.

From Washington Post

“The standard assumption that people generally tell the truth is what enables polls to be mostly right, but undercounting of certain groups, including those skeptical of pollsters, a group that skews conservative, can lead to flawed results and conclusions,” said Renée Van Vechten, a political science professor at the University of Redlands in California.

From Washington Times

Ms. Van Vechten expects national pollsters will work harder this year to reach potential nonparticipants, using weighting and other statistical techniques “to compensate for their recent inability to achieve a truly representative sample — and will also try to salvage their reputations.”

From Washington Times

But as you start to count up the details — the dumbbells and clothes wringer in the master bathroom, the cunning little cabinets in the linen room, the Dreiser and Van Vechten titles on the library’s red lacquer bookshelf — you’ll quickly discover they’re more than you can take in.

From New York Times

She became one of the most celebrated — and maligned — writers of the Harlem Renaissance, insisting on a social circle that included the controversial white author Carl Van Vechten, whose writings had been deemed exploitative by many Black critics.

From New York Times