George W. Cable

George Washington Cable was born in New Orleans in 1844. His father's death put him to work at fourteen; at nineteen he enlisted in the Confederate cavalry, where he was wounded, returned as an accountant to a cotton merchant, then kept a column in the Picayune. A New York magazine, looking for portraits of the post-war South, made him a writer. His stands for the civil equality of Black people earned him such hostility in the South that in 1885 he moved to Northampton, Massachusetts. He died in 1925 in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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• NovelThe Grandissimes: A Story of Creole LifeGeorge W. Cable · 1880LiteraturePublic domain