Charles Chesnutt facts for kids

Charles Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American writer. He wrote several books like The Marrow of Tradition and The House Behind the Cedars as well as for a short story about a haunted yard called The Goophered Grapevine.

Selected works

• The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899)
• The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899)
• Frederick Douglass (1899)
• The Passing of Grandison (1899)
• The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
• The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
• The Colonel's Dream (1905)
• Mandy Oxendine (written in the 1890s; first published in 1997)
• Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (written in 1921; first published 1998, University Press of Mississippi)
• A Business Career (written in the 1890s; first published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)
• Evelyn's Husband (first published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)

Images for kids

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  Title page for The Conjure Woman, 1899

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  Chesnutt's library at his Cleveland home

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  First edition cover of The Colonel's Dream (1905)