He was a successful school principal in North Carolina, but he became so distressed by the treatment of blacks in the South that he moved his family to Cleveland and soon turned to writing.
He was a successful school principal in North Carolina, but he became so distressed by the treatment of blacks in the South that he moved his family to Cleveland and soon turned to writing. His subtly ironic refutation of the romanticized view of plantation life, The Goophered Grapevine, was printed in the August 1887 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, the first work by a black writer in that magazine. For 10 points, name this author of the story collections The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line.
He was a successful school principal in North Carolina, but he became so distressed by the treatment of blacks in the South that he moved his family to Cleveland and soon turned to writing.
Charles W. {Chesnutt}