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Chesnutt, Charles W(addell)
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Chesnutt, Charles W[addell]
(1858–1932), black author, best known for The Conjure Woman (1899), a series of dialect stories about incidents of slavery, told by an old black gardener to his Northern employers. This was followed by a biography of Frederick Douglass (1899) and a second collection of stories, The Wife of His Youth (1899), dealing with a free black's conflicting loyalties to the wife he had married in slavery and to the more refined black woman whom he later meets. His less successful novels are The House Behind the Cedars (1900), concerned with a light-complexioned ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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