Chesnutt, Charles W.
1858-1932 · Contribution: 1887-1905
Literature & Writing
Fiction and essays confronting race, identity, and 'the color line' in the post-Civil War South; short-story collections 'The Conjure Woman' (1899) and 'The Wife of His Youth' (1899) and novels including 'The Marrow of Tradition' (1901)
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Chesnutt brought sophisticated, morally complex fiction about race into the mainstream American literary world for the first time from a Black author.
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