Guido Bruno

Guido Bruno (1884-1942) was a well-known character in Greenwich Village, a small publisher and editor of the press, sometimes called “Barnum of Bohemia”. It was based in its Garrett in Washington Square, where tourists could watch the work of "real bohemian" artists for admission. He has released a series of small magazine publications, including Bruno’s weekly, Bruno’s Monthly, Bruno Bohemia, Greenwich Village, and Bruno Chap’s Books for 15 cents. From July 1915 to December 1916, Bruno weekly published poems, short stories, essays, illustrations, and plays, as well as special sections, such as the Children's Home and In Our Village. The publisher was Charles Edison. The weekly Bruno published articles by Alfred Kreimborg, Juna Barnes and Sadakichi Hartmann, Alfred Douglas, articles about Oscar Wilde, and Richard Aldington about Imagists. The others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna Underwood, and Charles Keynes-Jackson. In 1915-16, Bruno briefly collaborated with Charles Edison in the Little Thimble Theater. However, he was a close partner of Frank Harris, allegedly abducting Harris's diary and trying to sell it.