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Each chapter of "A Chance Meeting" takes up an actual encounter between two historical figures. As Rachel Cohen writes in her introduction: 'They met in ordinary ways - a careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend's casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Henry James: Add a description of this character.
- James Baldwin
- William Dean Howells
- Carl Van Vechten
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Marcel Duchamp
- Norman Mailer
- Hughes
- Whitman
- Richard Avedon
- Charlie Chaplin
- Willa Cather
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Steichen
- Robert Lowell
- Delaney
- Grant
- Marianne Moore
- Gertrude Stein
- Mark Twain
- William James
- Mathew Brady
- Hart Crane
- Porter
- Du Bois
- Cage
- Rauschenberg
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Leo Stein
- Lincoln
- Cunningham
- Matisse
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- America
- Europe
- Paris
- Boston
- Mexico
- Harlem
- United States
- New England
- Washington
- Brooklyn
- Maine
- Georgia
- Chicago
- Germany
- France
- Brazil
- London
- Atlantic Monthly
- California
- Florida
- Switzerland
- Italy
- Cambridge
- Ohio
- Richmond
- Mississippi
- City Point
- Flaubert
- Missouri
- Massachusetts
- Haiti
- D.c.
- Atlanta
- Vietnam
- Whittier
- Nebraska
- Charles Street
- Los Angeles
- Puerto Rico
- Venice
- Camera Work
- Manhattan
- Cold Harbor
- Rye
- Virginia
First Sentence edit
THEY HAD COME IN FROM THE COUNTRY.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Rachel Cohen (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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