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George Washington Cable, an American author and critic, was born in New Orleans and fought for the South in the Civil War. His first collection of tales of life in the south was Old creole days (1879). In 1884 he went on a reading tour with Mark Twain. He moved to Northampton, Mass., in 1885. He is chiefly known for his early works describing picturesque Louisiana Creole life and courageous essays on civil rights.
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American author.
George Washington Cable was born in New Orleans, La., and served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He worked as a journalist for the New Orleans Picayune from 1865 to 1879. His most important works are Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), and Madame Delphine (1881). His sympathy for civil rights and opposition to the harsh racism of the era showed in his writings, earning him resentment by many white Southerners. Cable moved to Massachusetts in 1884 and died in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1925.
Cable was an American author.
Author and journalist Cable was born in New Orleans, was a reporter for the New Orleans Picayune (1865-1879), and wrote short stories for Scribner's Monthly, and more than a dozen novels.
Author, of Northampton, Mass., and New Orleans, La.
American novelist.
American regional novelist. His best received works were set in Louisiana.
George Washington Cable was an American author who became famous for his fictional treatment of the Creoles of Louisiana. His best known books are Old Creole Days (1879), a collection of stories, and the novels, The Grandissimes (1880) and Madame Delphine (1881).
George Washington Cable (1844-1925) was na American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native Lousiana. Contemporary and friend of Mark Twain.
Short story writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, and historian. Worked as customhouse clerk and grocery clerk-cashier, 1859-63; worked at various clerkships, 1863-65; state surveyor, 1865-66; secretary to the New Orleans Oil Works Company, beginning 1865; incapacitated by malaria, 1866-68; New Orleans Picayune, New Orleans, LA, columnist and reporter, 1870-71; William C. Black and Company (cotton factory), New Orleans, bookkeeper, 1871-81; full-time writer, 1881-1925; published the journals Letter, 1892- 96, and Symposium, 1896. Toured the United States reading his own works, 1884-1925. Organized the Home-Culture Club, Northampton, MA, 1886 (later renamed Northampton People's Institute, 1909).--Cf. Biography Resource Center.
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Forms part of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library.
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