id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7245 Charles W. Chesnutt - Wikipedia .html text/html 5576 538 71 Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. They moved to New York City.[1] They had four daughters, one of whom, Helen Maria Chesnutt, became a noted classicist and published a biography of her father.[5][6] He wanted to escape the prejudice and poverty of the South, as well as to pursue a literary career. In 2002, the Library of America added a major collection of Chesnutt's fiction and non-fiction to its important "American Authors" series, under the title Stories, Novels And Essays: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, Uncollected Stories, Selected Essays (Werner Sollors, ed.). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7245.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7245.txt