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    Charles W. Chesnutt

    Charles W. Chestnutt (1858–1932) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where his family had moved from Fayettefille, North Carolina, to seek better economic opportunities. Shortly after the Civil War, they returned to Fayetteville, where Chesnutt spent most of his childhood and young adulthood. He taught in local public schools, eventually returning to Cleveland and being admitted to the bar. He established a legal stenography business yet found himself strongly attracted to writing fiction. He published two collections of short stories, The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1890) and three widely reviewed novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900), The Marrow of Tradition (1901), and The Colonel's Dream (1905), while devoting essays and speeches to agitation for civil rights for African Americans, especially in the South. Unable to support his family as a full-time writer, he resumed his business career but maintained until his death a respected role in African American letters.
    Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
    Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780141185026
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 01, 2000
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The House Behind the Cedars
    The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780140186857
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 01, 1993
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Marrow of Tradition
    The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780140186864
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 01, 1993
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Three Classic African-American Novels
    Three Classic African-American Novels
    Clotel, Iola Leary, The Marrow of Tradition
    William W. Brown , Frances Ellen Watkins Harper , Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780679727422
    $25.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 11, 1990
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
    Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780141185026
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 01, 2000
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The House Behind the Cedars
    The House Behind the Cedars
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780140186857
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 01, 1993
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Marrow of Tradition
    The Marrow of Tradition
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780140186864
    $16.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 01, 1993
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Three Classic African-American Novels
    Three Classic African-American Novels
    Clotel, Iola Leary, The Marrow of Tradition
    William W. Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles W. Chesnutt
    9780679727422
    $25.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 11, 1990
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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