The complete online text of The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. Chesnutt.

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 indictment...

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 185...

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 both...

EXCELLENT Self-portrait of an artist. In the 75 essays, musings, sketches, speeches, and anecdotes collected here, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk provides a detailed picture of his literary origins and inspirations. He discusses his love for Istanbul and for Turkey, a troubled...

Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk. Alfred A. Knopf, 433 pp., $27.95. In March 1985 Orhan Pamuk, who'd spent three years in America and was fluent in English, guided Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter, "the two most...