Vincent O. Carter (1924–1983) was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. During World War II, he stormed the beaches at Normandy and took part in the liberation of Paris. On returning to America, he went to Lincoln University on the GI Bill, tried graduate school, but then, longing for escape, left the US for France, then Holland, then Germany, before settling in Bern, where he lived from 1953 until his death. Carter is also the author of the novel Such Sweet Thunder, available from Steerforth Press.
"Like other black writers of his time, notably James Baldwin and
Richard Wright, Carter had left the United States and moved to
Europe to try his hand as an expatriate author. Unlike those
novelists—now in the pantheon of black literature—Carter drew scant
attention. Baldwin may have written Nobody Knows My Name, but the
title applied even more to Carter."
*San Francisco Chronicle*
"Episodically riveting."
*Kirkus Reviews*
“The Bern Book is a work about ambivalence, escape, evasion, and
the expatriate’s creed of noble procrastination, noble withdrawal.
Carter is that familiar, defensive figure in the café, the man who
refuses to be practical, the artist with impossible high standards,
the stranger who is difficult to help.”
*Darryl Pinckney, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature*
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