Strange True Stories of Louisiana (Esprios Classics)

George Washington Cable (October 12 1844 - January 31 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans Louisiana. He has been called the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century as well as the first modern Southern writer. In his treatment of racism mixed-race families and miscegenation his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow Cable moved with his family to Northampton Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years then moved to Florida.