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)

Category:1858 births
Category:1932 deaths
Category:Writers from Ohio
Category:Writers from Cleveland