Books By Charles W. Chesnutt, William L. Andrews - Author

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt (1980), To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 (1986), and Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 (2019). A co-editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, he has edited Chesnutt's Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line for Penguin Classics. In 2018 he received the Jay B. Hubbell Medal from the Modern Language Association for lifetime achievement in the study of American Literature.
 


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