Fania Marinoff

Fania Marinoff and her husband, Carl Van Vechten, played a prominent role in the bohemian social and artistic life of New York, particularly of the Harlem Renaissance.

Fania Marinoff. 2009

Fania Marinoff was associated with one of the most vibrant artistic circles in the United States and Europe.

Fania Marinoff. 2009

Fania Marinoff died seven years later, on November 16, 1971, in Englewood, New Jersey.

Fania Marinoff. 2009

While Fania Marinoff was not a practicing Jew, she was an intensely religious person and Judaism was central to her identity.

Fania Marinoff. 2009

His marriage to his first wife, a long-time friend from home, lasted only a few years, while marriage to the petite actress Fania Marinoff endured for a lifetime, from 1914 until Van Vechten died in 1964.

Michael Henry Adams: Queers in the Mirror: A Brief History of Old-Fashioned Gay Marriage in New York, Part II 2009