Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 (Personal Name)

His The conjure woman, 1899.

His Mandy Oxendine, c1993: CIP t.p. (Charles W. Chesnutt)

The colonel's dream, c1969: t.p. (Charles W. Chesnutt) cover (Charles Waddell Chesnutt)

Wikipedia WWW site, Mar. 30, 2012: Charles W. Chesnutt p. (Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858-Nov. 17, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer)

NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. Lib. for His Collection supplement No. 1, 1898-1942 (Charles W. Chesnutt; African American novelist; born June 20, 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio to free blacks from North Carolina)

African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, fiction writer; born June 20, 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States; moved to Fayetteville in 1866 with his family; principal of the normal school in Fayetteville, North Carolina at age twenty-two; in 1883 used his self-taught ability to take shorthand at two hundred words per minute to escape from the post-Civil War South, first to New York for a few months and then to Cleveland where he worked as an office clerk and court reporter; passed the Ohio bar exam in 1887 and established a prosperous legal stenography firm; published short fiction and articles; active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Cleveland and nationally; member of the National Arts Club; awarded the NAACP's prestigious Spingarn Medal (1928); died November 15,1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States)