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fantastic collection of photos! nice to see willard winter among them -- when neil and i and harriet zwerling visited henry several weeks before his death, willard was also there and we met him. i'm 87, but he's in his nineties (you'd never guess!) and went up and down stairs better than me! i love the attention you've given to our henry in these two posts. i suspect you're also a remarkable man.
Who Was Henry Van Dyke?
Henry Van Dyke, 1928-2011 Henry had an ageless quality; one never thought of him as older. But there was maturity in the way he appreciated certain artists, intellectuals and beauties whose value had come to be under-rated. So he liked Countee Cullen, Alain Leroy Locke, Jimmy Daniels, Jane...
what a relief to find this wonderful report published! The New York Times only ran the family's paid notice of Henry Van Dyke's death. Four novels published with major NY houses -- Farrar, Straus, and Norton -- that's not enough to qualify a black author for an obit? thanks, Michael! and thanks for publishing our photos as 'two friends' -- we're edward field and neil derrick.
Rachel Ate Ecargots!: Learning More About Who Henry Van Dyke Was.
1970 November 3, 1962 How foolish one felt learning that he'd published four novels, not three. How sad, to know of his last year's struggle, expressing the desires of an undiminished brilliant intellect via the restrictive confines of a failing body, ravaged by old age, impaired by dis...
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