What is Charles Chesnutt?
[[File:Charles W Chesnutt 40.jpg|thumb|Charles Chesnutt]] '''Charles Waddell Chesnutt''' (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an [[African-American]] [[writer]]. He wrote several [[book]]s like ''The Marrow of Tradition'' and ''The House Behind the Cedars'' as well as for a short [[story]] about a [[supernatural|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) {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chesnutt, Charles}} [[Category:1858 births]] [[Category:1932 deaths]] [[Category:Writers from Ohio]] [[Category:Writers from Cleveland]]