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'To Be an Author' : Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 by Joseph R. McElrath (editor); Robert C. Leitz (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those chronicling the rise of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), an attorney and businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, who achieved prominence as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and lecturer despite the obstacles faced by a man of color during the "Jim Crow" period. In his insightful commentaries on his own situation, Chesnutt provides as well a special perspective on life-at-large in America during the Gilded Age, the "gay `90s" (which were not so gay for African Americans), and the Progressive era. Like his black correspondents--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, T. Thomas Fortune, and William M. Trotter--he was one of the major commentators on what was then termed the "Negro Problem." His most distinguished novels, __The House Behind the Cedars__ (1900) and __The Marrow of Tradition__ (1901), were published by major "white" presses of the time; not only did his editors and publishers but then-preeminent black and white critics greet

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Author

Joseph R. McElrath (editor); Robert C. Leitz (editor)

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691606613

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography