KELLNER, Bruce 1930-

PERSONAL: Born March 17, 1930, in Indianapolis, IN; son of Gordon (an insurance executive) and Lillian (Zumbrunn) Kellner; married Margaret Wilcox, December 28, 1961; children: Hans Karl, Kate Hein. Education: Colorado College, B.A., 1955; University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1958. Politics: Democrat.

ADDRESSES: Home—514 North School Ln., Lancaster, PA 17603. Offıce—c/o Department of English, Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551.

CAREER: Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, assistant professor of English, 1955-60; Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, assistant professor of English and drama director, 1960-69; Millersville University, Millersville, PA, professor of English, 1969-91, professor emeritus, 1991—. Military service: U.S. Navy, 1951-54.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, American Association of University Professors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Alpha Psi Omega, Pi Delta Kappa, Kappa Sigma.

WRITINGS:

Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1968.

(Editor) "Keep a-Inchin' Along": Selected Writings of Carl Van Vechten about Black Arts and Letters, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1979.

A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1980.

The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1984, revised edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

(Editor) The Letters of Carl Van Vechten, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1987.

A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1988.

Donald Windham: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1991.

The Last Dandy: Ralph Barton, American Artist, 1891-1931, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1991.

(Editor) The Major Works of Gertrude Stein, sixteen volumes, 1993.

(Editor) Early Modern African American Writers, 1892-1922, twenty-five volumes, 1998.

(Editor) Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935: With Assessments of His Work by His Contemporaries, Temple University Press (Philadelphia, PA), 2000.

Kiss Me Again: An Invitation to a Group of Noble Dames (memoir), Turtle Point Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Author of introduction to The Tattooed Countess, by Carl Van Vechten, University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, IA), 1987; contributor to other books, including Great Writers of the English Language, edited by James Vinson, Scribner (New York, NY), 1979; American Writers, edited by A. Walton Litz, Scribner (New York, NY), 1981; and Heart's Invention: On the Poetry of Vassar Miller, edited by Steven Ford Brown, Ford-Brown Publishers, 1988. Contributor to periodicals, including Glasgow Newsletter, Western Humanities Review, Contemporary Poetry, and Illinois Quarterly.

SIDELIGHTS: "Like Joanne Trautmann, who may have coined the phrase to describe herself when she was editing Virginia Woolf's letters, I am a 'footnote fetishist,'" Bruce Kellner once told CA. "My natural habitat is the library, but I care passionately about language and believe that scholarly writing can be as handsomely constructed as other literary forms. Craft and art are not the especial possessions of poetry and fiction. Regardless of the form, however, I believe that craft must precede art. Our greatest critics, like our greatest poets, have always known that."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Literature, October, 1985, review of The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era, p. 537; March, 1989, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example, p. 163; March, 1992, review of Donald Windham: A Bio-bibliography, p. 210.

American Reference Books Annual, 1981, review of A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten, p. 585; 1986, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 343; 1989, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion, p. 436; 1992, review of Donald Windham, p. 479.

ANQ: Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, July, 1990, Randa Dubnick, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion, p. 148.

Black American Literature Forum, summer, 1985, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 90.

Booklist, April 1, 1985, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 1108; October 15, 1991, review of The Last Dandy: Ralph Barton, American Artist, 1891-1931, p. 395; March 1, 2002, Donna Seaman, review of Kiss Me Again: An Invitation to a Group of Noble Dames, pp. 1083-1084.

Books, July, 1988, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 19.

Callalou, fall, 1986, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 749; spring, 1987.

Choice, May, 1985, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 1304; February, 1989, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion, p. 939; March, 1992, A. N. Vinh, review of Donald Windham, p. 1048.

Journal of American Culture, summer, 1996, Harold Hatt, review of Donald Windham, p. 150.

Journal of American History, March, 1990, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 1357.

Journal of American Studies, December, 1989, Brian Lee, review of The Letters of Carl Van Vechten, p. 489.

Journal of Modern Literature, fall-winter, 1989, Morton P. Levitt, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion, p. 416.

Journal of Negro Education, fall, 1985, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 576.

Library Journal, April 1, 1980, review of A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten, p. 843; February 1, 1992, Kathleen Eagen Johnson, review of The Last Dandy, p. 84; April 15, 2002, Shelley Cox, review of Kiss Me Again, p. 86.

Modern Fiction Studies, summer, 1989, Michael Hoffman, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion, p. 279.

New York Times Book Review, February 16, 1969; December 8, 1991, James R. Mellow, review of The Last Dandy, p. 13.

Notes, June, 1991, Charles Shere, review of The Letters of Carl Van Vechten, p. 1099.

Reference and Research Book News, February, 1989, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion, p. 24.

Southern Humanities Review, winter, 1991, Charles Caramello, review of A Gertrude Stein Companion, p. 85.

Times Literary Supplement, July 24, 1992, Russell Davies, review of The Last Dandy, p. 17.

Variety, March 26, 1969.

Washington Post Book World, October 18, 1988, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 12.

West Coast Review of Books, Art, and Entertainment, April, 1992, review of The Last Dandy, p. 41.

Wilson Library Bulletin, May, 1985, review of The Harlem Renaissance, p. 624.

ONLINE

CAA.Reviews, http://www.caareviews.org/ (September 24, 2002), Donna M. Cassidy, review of Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935: With Assessments of His Work by His Contemporaries.

D.A.P. Catalog,http://www.artbook.com/ (September 24, 2002), publisher's description of Kiss Me Again: An Invitation to a Group of Noble Dames.

Lancaster New Era Online, http://www.lancasteronline.com/ (March 29, 2001), Jack Brubaker, "Bruce Kellner's 'Noble Dames' Dance across Pages of a New Memoir."*