Charles Chesnutt
Novelist, short story writer, essayist, activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American writer. He wrote several books like The Marrow of Tradition and The House Behind the Cedars as well as for a short story about a haunted yard called The Goophered Grapevine.