Books Published During Chesnutt's Lifetime
Posthumously Published Editions
Contributions to Periodicals and Books: Fiction, Essays, Poetry

Books Published During Chesnutt's Lifetime

The Conjure Woman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.

Frederick Douglass. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1899.

The Marrow of Tradition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901.

The Colonel's Dream. New York: Doubleday Page, 1905.

Posthumously Published Editions

The Short Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt. Ed. Sylvia Lyons Render. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974.

The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales. Ed. Richard Brodhead. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993.

Mandy Oxendine: A Novel. Ed. Charles Hackenberry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

"To Be an Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889–1905. Ed. Jospeh R. McElrath, Jr. and Robert C. Leitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Paul Marchand, F. M. C. Ed. Dean McWilliams. Princteon: Princeton University Press, 1998.

The Quarry. Ed. Dean McWilliams. Princteon: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches. Ed. Joseph R. McElrath, Robert C. Leitz III, Jesse S. Crisler. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Contributions to Periodicals and Books: Fiction

"Frisk's First Rat." Educator [Fayetteville, N.C.], March 20, 1875.

"Uncle Peter's House." Cleveland News and Herald, December 1885.

"A Tight Boot." Cleveland News and Herald, January 30, 1886.

"A Bad Night." Atlanta Constitution, August 2, 1886, p. 5.

"Two Wives." New Haven Evening Register, August 13, 1886, p. 3.

"A Warm Welcome." Family Fiction, November 27, 1886.

"A Secret Ally." New Haven Register, December 6, 1886.

"The Fall of Adam." Family Fiction, December 25, 1886.

"A Busy Day in a Lawyer's Office." Tid-Bits, January 15, 1887.

"McDugald's Mule." Family Fiction, January 15, 1887.

"How Dasdy Came Through." Family Fiction, February 12, 1887.

"Aunt Lucy's Search." Family Fiction, April 16, 1887.

"Appreciation." Puck, April 20, 1887, p. 128.

"A Soulless Corporation." Tid-Bits, April 16, 1887.

"Wine and Water." Family Fiction, April 23, 1887.

"A Grass Widow." Family Fiction, May 14, 1887.

"The Doctor's Wife." Chicago Ledger, June 1, 1887.

"A Metropolitan Experience." Chicago Ledger, June 15, 1887.

"A Virginia Chicken." Household Realm, August 1887.

"A Midnight Adventure." New Haven Register, December 6, 1887.

"A Doubtful Success." Cleveland News and Herald, February 17, 1888.

"Po' Sandy." Atlantic Monthly, May 1888, pp. 605-11.

"An Eloquent Appeal." Puck, June 6, 1888, p. 246.

"Cartwright's Mistake." Cleveland News and Herald, September 19, 1888.

"A Fool's Paradise." Family Fiction, November 24, 1888.

"How a Good Man Went Wrong." Puck, November 28, 1888, p. 214.

"Gratitude." Puck, December 26, 1888, p. 300.

"The Origin of the Hatchet Story." Puck, April 24, 1889, p.132.

"A Fatal Restriction." Puck, May 1, 1889, p. 166.

"The Conjurer's Revenge." Overland Monthly, June 1889, pp. 623-29.

"A Roman Antique." Puck, July 17, 1889, p. 351.

"She Reminded Him." Puck, September 21, 1887, p. 58.

"Dave's Neckliss." Atlantic Monthly, October 1889, pp. 500-508.

"The Sheriff's Children." New York Independent, November 7, 1889, pp. 30-32.

"A Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre." Puck, January 14, 1891, p.354.

"A Deep Sleeper." Two Tales, March 11, 1893, pp. 1-8.

"The Wife of His Youth." Atlantic Monthly, July 1898, pp. 55-61.

"Hot-Foot Hannibal." Atlantic Monthly, January 1899, pp. 49-56.

"The Bouquet." Atlantic Monthly, November 1899, pp. 648-54. Reprinted as "The Bunch of Yellow Roses," Living Age, April 7, 1900, pp. 63-66.

"Aunt Mimy's Son." Youth's Companion, March 1, 1900, pp.104-105.

"Lonesome Ben." Southern Workman, March 1900, 137-45.

"A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken." Self-Culture Magazine, July 1900, 404-409.

"The Sway-Backed House." Outlook, November 1900, 588-93.

"Tobe's Tribulations." Southern Workman, November 1900, 656-64.

"The March of Progress." Century, January 1901, 422-28.

"The Partners." Southern Workman, May 1901, 271-78.

"Baxter's Procrustes." Atlantic Monthly, June 1904, 823-30.

"The Prophet Peter." Hathaway-Brown Magazine, April 1, 1906, 51-66.

"The Doll." Crisis, April 1912, pp. 248-52.

"Mr. Taylor's Funeral." Crisis, April 1915, pp. 313-16; May 1915, pp. 34-37.

"The Marked Tree." Crisis, December-January, 1924-1925, 59-64, 110-13.

"Concerning Father." Crisis, May 1930, 153-55, 175.

Contributions to Periodicals and Books: Essays

"Methods of Teaching." Minutes of the North Carolina State Teachers' Educational Association. Raleigh, N.C.: Baptist Standard Print, 1883, pp. 5-13.

"Things To Be Thankful For." Social Circle Journal, 1886.

"Advice to Young Men." Social Circle Journal, November 1886, p. 1.

"What Is a White Man?" New York Independent, May 30, 1889, pp. 5-6.

"A Multitude of Counselors." New York Independent, April 2, 1891, pp. 4-5.

"On the Future of His People." Saturday Evening Post, January 20, 1900, p. 646. (Review of Booker T. Washington's The Future of the American Negro.)

"A Plea for the American Negro." Critic, February 1900, pp. 160-63. (Review of The Future of the American Negro.)

"The Future American: What the Race Is Likely to Become in the Process of Time." Boston Evening Transcript, August 18, 1900, p.20.

"The Future American: A Stream of Dark Blood in the Veins of Southern Whites." Boston Evening Transcript, August 25, 1900, p.15.

"The Future American: A Complete Race Amalgamation Likely to Occur." Boston Evening Transcript, September 1, 1900, p. 24.

"The White and the Black." Boston Evening Transcript, March 20, 1901, p.13.

"A Visit to Tuskegee." Cleveland Leader, March 31, 1901, p.19.

"A Defamer of His Race." Critic, April 1901, pp. 350-51. (Review of William Hannibal Thomas, The American Negro).

"Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the South." Modern Culture, May 1901, pp. 231-35.

"The Negro's Franchise." Boston Evening Transcript, May 11, 1901, p. 18.

"Charles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, 'The Marrow of Tradition.'" Cleveland World, October 20, 1901, magazine section, p. 5.

"The Disfranchisement of the Negro." Booker T. Washington, et al. The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-day. New York: James Pott, 1903, pp. 79-124.

"Peonage, Or the New Slavery." Voice of the Negro, September 1904, pp. 394-97.

"Prejudice: Its Causes and Its Cure." Alexander's Magazine, July 15, 1905, pp. 21-26.

"Lincoln's Courtship." Southwestern Christian Advocate, February 4, 1909, p.8.

"Race Ideals and Examples." A.M.E. Review, 1913, pp. 101-117.

"Women's Rights." Crisis, August 1915, pp. 182-83.

"The Mission of the Drama." Cygnet, January, 1920, pp.11-12 .

"The Negro in Cleveland." Clevelander, November 1930, pp. 3-4, 24, 26-27.

"Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem." Colophon, 1931 and Crisis, June 1931, pp. 19-34.

Contributions to Periodicals and Books: Poetry

"A Summer Cloud." Cleveland Voice, August 30, 1885, p.2.

"A Father's Dream." Cleveland Voice, March 8, 1885, p.2.

"A Battle Hymn." Social Circle Journal, October 1886, p. 1.

"The Ballad of Fair Oscar." Tid-Bits, December 18, 1886.

"The Garden" n.p., December, 1886.

"An Oasis" Tid-Bits, n.d.

"To the Grand Army of the Republic" Cleveland Leader, September 8, 1901, p.12.