Along with that novel about George Tryon and Rena Walden, he wrote a short story in which the former slave Uncle Julius McAdoo ruins the soil of his property and advises the narrator not to buy part of the plantation.  
In one novel written by this man, one character disguises himself as a servant to win a cakewalk, and that novel also sees the deaths of George McBane and Polly Ochiltree.  In addition to that novel in which Dr. Miller's hospital is burned down by a mob, he wrote a work in which the protagonist is rejected by her fiancÃ© when he discovers that she has black heritage.  Along with that novel about George Tryon and Rena Walden, he wrote a short story in which the former slave Uncle Julius McAdoo ruins the soil of his property and advises the narrator not to buy part of the plantation.  FTP, name this author of The Marrow of Tradition and The House Behind the Cedars who included The Goophered Grapevine in his collection The Conjure Woman.
In one novel written by this man, one character disguises himself as a servant to win a cakewalk, and that novel also sees the deaths of George McBane and Polly Ochiltree.  
Charles Chesnutt