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Copyright © 2004, 2024 by Rachel Cohen

Foreword copyright © 2024 by Vijay Seshadri

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First published as a New York Review Books Classic in 2024.

Cover image: Beauford Delaney, Untitled (Village Street Scene), 1948; © Estate of Beauford Delaney

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cohen, Rachel, 1973– author.

Title: A chance meeting : intertwined lives of American writers and artists / by Rachel Cohen.

Description: New York : New York Review Books, 2024. | Series: New York Review Books Classics

Identifiers: LCCN 2023027566 (print) | LCCN 2023027567 (ebook) | ISBN 9781681378107 (paperback) | ISBN 9781681378114 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Authors, American—20th century—Biography. | Artists—United States—Biography. | Authors and artists—Biography. | Friendship—United States—History—20th century. | Arts, American—20th century. | United States—Intellectual life—20th century.

Classification: LCC PS129 .C56 2024 (print) | LCC PS129 (ebook) | DDC 810.9/005 [B]—dc23/eng/20230615

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023027566

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023027567

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