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Charles Waddell Chesnutt | | Birth Date: |
June 20, 1858 | | Death Date: |
November 15, 1932 | | Place of Birth: |
Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, lawyer |
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 Biography of Charles W(addell) Chesnutt
8,457 words, approx. 28 pages
 Charles W. Chesnutt was the first important Afro-American writer of fiction to enlist the white-controlled publishing industry in the service of his social message, touching a significant portion of the white American reading audience with his... summary from source:
Biography of Charles W(addell) Chesnutt
6,760 words, approx. 23 pages
Charles Waddell Chesnutt, a "voluntary Negro" (one who, though so fair as to be mistaken for white, chooses not to "pass"), was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the eldest child of Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and the former Ann Maria Sampson, free blacks, who in... summary from source:
Biography of Charles W(addell) Chesnutt
4,129 words, approx. 14 pages
Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important black writer of fiction; no black American before him had created a sustained body of significant work. Since his life spanned nearly two halves of two different centuries, his writing reflects...
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 Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes
56 words, approx. 1 pages
 Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind,...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Chesnutt, Charles W.
316 words, approx. 1 pages(born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland) first important black American novelist. Chesnutt was the son of free blacks who had left their native city of Fayetteville, N.C., prior to the American Civil War.... summary from source:
Chesnutt, Charles (Waddell)
94 words, approx. 1 pages(born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland) U.S. writer, the first important African American novelist. As a young school principal in North Carolina, he was so distressed by the treatment of African Americans that... summary from source:
 Charles W. Chesnutt Information
1,226 words, approx. 4 pages
Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Andrew Jackson and Ann Maria (Sampson) Chesnutt, both "free persons of color" from Fayetteville, North Carolina. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder. Chesnutt was of mixed race but could pass with...
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 The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Charles W. Chesnutt: 1858-1932
10/31/2000: 425 words, approx. 1 pages Charles W. Chesnutt: 1858-1932 Charles W. Chesnutt was the nation's first commercially successful African-American writer of fiction. He published his first short story at the age of 14. Over the course of a long career, he wrote three novels, a biography of Frederick... summary from source:
American Visions The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt. (book reviews)
04/01/1994: 550 words, approx. 2 pages Chesnutt was born into a free family. After the Civil War his family moved to North Carolina, where he kept a series of journals from the time he was 16 till he was 24 (The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt, Duke University Press,... summary from source:
 AP News Bette Davis featured on new 2008 stamps
12/27/2007: 737 words, approx. 3 pagesA face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in... summary from source:
AP News Bette Davis stars in 2008 postage stamps
12/27/2007: 737 words, approx. 3 pagesA face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Henry B. Wonham
31,683 words, approx. 106 pages
In the following essay, Wonham details Chesnutt's literary career and the author's dialect and non-dialect short stories.
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Critical Essay by Lorne Fienberg
8,293 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, originally published in the American Transcendental Quarterly, in 1990, Fienberg delineates the differences between Chesnutt's The Wife of His Youth, and The Conjure Woman.
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Critical Essay by Lorne Fienberg
8,284 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Fienberg views Charles Chestnutt's short story “The Wife of His Youth” as a reflection of the author's own efforts to define himself as a black author.
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