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Vincent O. Carter (19241983) 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.
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 cafe, 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 Episodically riveting. -Kirkus Reviews 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
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