| LC control no. | n 79138741 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS1292.C6 |
| Personal name heading | Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 |
| Birth date | 1858-06-20 |
| Death date | 1932-11-17 |
| Place of birth | Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Affiliation | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Arts Club (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Teachers Essayists Novelists Political activists |
| Found in | 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 91101196 |
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