Guido Bruno was a well-known Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

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 character, sometimes called 'the Barnum of Bohemia'.

He was based at his "Garret" on Washington Square

Washington Square Park

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 where for an admission fee tourists could observe genuine "Bohemian" artists at work. 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

Alfred Kreymborg

Alfred Francis Kreymborg was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist.-Early life and associations:...

, Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and '30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens...

 and Sadakichi Hartmann

Sadakichi Hartmann

Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was a critic and poet of German and Japanese descent.Hartmann, born on the artificial island of Dejima, Nagasaki and raised in Germany, became an American citizen in 1894. An important early participant in modernism, Hartmann was a friend of such diverse figures as Walt...

, letters of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

, Alfred Douglas, Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington , born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry...

 on the Imagists. Others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna W. Underwood

Edna W. Underwood

Edna Worthley Underwood was a prolific author, poet, and translator.Born in Maine in January 1873, Edna Worthley received little education as a child, attending school occasionally, only when her family moved to Kansas in 1884. She undertook a program of extensive self-instruction, learning Latin...

, and Charles Kains-Jackson. In 1915-16 Bruno briefly partnered with Charles Edison in the operation of the "Little Thimble Theater" .

He was a close associate of Frank Harris

Frank Harris

Frank Harris was a Irish-born, naturalized-American author, editor, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day...

, allegedly though stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.

Further reading

• Arnold I. Kisch. The Romantic Ghost of Greenwich Village: Guido Bruno in his Garret. Frankfurt
  Frankfurt
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  : Peter Lang, 1976. ISBN 3-26101-727-9.