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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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