Author:Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
(1858–1932)

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African-American author and political activist best known for novels and short stories exploring racism and other social themes

Works

The Colonel's Dream (1905)
The Conjure Woman (1899)
The Disfranchisement of the Negro (1903)
Frederick Douglass (Chesnutt) (1899)
The Goophered Grapevine (1899)
The House Behind the Cedars {1900}
The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays (1899)

Works about Chesnutt

Chapter IV. Charles W. Chesnutt, in The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1918)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1931.

This author died in 1932, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 93 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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