Cable, George Washington
Cable, George Washington( 1844–1925),born in New Orleans, served in the Confederate army, studied engineering, and was a warehouse clerk before he turned to writing as a career. His early sketches were published in the New Orleans Picayune, and his stories of Louisiana local color appeared in Scribner's and Appleton's at intervals from 1873 to 1879. In the latter year he published a collection, Old Creole Days, which was followed by a novel of 19th-century Louisiana, The Grandissimes (1880). Other books include Madame Delphine (1881), a novelette about a quadroon woman; Dr. Sevier (1885), a novel set in New Orleans before and during the Civil War; Bonaventure (1888), concerned with a Creole among the descendants of Acadian exiles; John March, Southerner (1894), a novel of the Reconstruction, concerned with an amiable old judge and his dealings with Northern intrigues in a small town; Strong...
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