Guido Bruno
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Guido Bruno (1884–1942) was a well-known Greenwich Village character, sometimes called 'the Barnum of Bohemia'.
He was based at his "Garret" on Washington Square. He produced several little magazine publications from there, in particular around 1914-16: Greenwich Village magazine, then Bruno's Weekly, and the 15 cent Bruno Chap Books. He published Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes and Sadakichi Hartmann, letters of Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, Richard Aldington on the Imagists. Others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna Worthley Underwood, and Charles Kains-Jackson
He was a close associate of Frank Harris, allegedly though stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.
[edit] References
- Ross Wetzsteon. Republic of Dreams, Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. ISBN 0-68486-996-9.
[edit] Further reading
- Arnold I. Kisch. The Romantic Ghost of Greenwich Village: Guido Bruno in his Garret. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1976. ISBN 3-26101-727-9.
