The first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputationCharles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern lifebefore and afte... » 

The first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputationCharles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern lifebefore and after the Civil War. But he also produced a large body of what mightbest be called his RNorthernS writings and those works taken togetherdescribe the intriguing ways in which America was reshaping itself at the turnof the last century. «