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Guido Bruno
1884–1942
A vivid Greenwich Village personality, he mixed publishing, performance, and self-promotion into a one-man literary scene. His small magazines and chapbooks helped capture the restless bohemian spirit of New York in the 1910s and 1920s.
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About the author
Born in Prague in 1884, Guido Bruno became known in New York as a publisher, editor, and tireless promoter of Greenwich Village's bohemian culture. He ran little magazines and chapbook series, and he was closely associated with the artists and writers who made the Village famous in the years before and after World War I.
He is often remembered as much for his flair as for his publications. Writing about Village life and turning his own garret into part literary salon, part tourist attraction, he earned a reputation as one of the scene's great characters. That mix of showmanship and literary energy helped make him a memorable figure in American urban cultural history.
Bruno died in 1942. Though not as widely read today as some of the writers around him, he remains an interesting guide to the independent press world and the mythmaking of old Greenwich Village.