... the Picayune. Here he found materials to turn into short stories. Cable was an active sponsor for equal rights for African Americans and advocated his support through his stories and essays. The publication of Cable's s collection of seven stories, Old Creole Days (1879), established the genre of southern local-color fiction with its use of regional dialect, settling, and character. Five ... stories. Cable continued to write about the South and published three more collections of short stories until his death on January 21, 1925. Cable is most well-known for his essays on civil rights a...

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... a chance to compete in the "white man's world" that existed. The very idea of a coexistence between races seemed impossible. Through Hughes" works that included: poetry, short stories, novels, and political essays, Hughes brought his words to life and educated many people. He always followed his own dreams and never faltered, even when his own people didn't always agree with him. Hughes ... to attend an all white school that was closer by and had better credentials. His mother according to Hughes, "who was always ready to do battle for the rights of free people," (Hill 15.) appealed to ...

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... to pursue writing rather than an education. James never married, he said in the tale"The Lesson Of The Master" (1888), he considered to be an artist you should be free of all the obligations of a family. James left America in his early 30s, and moved to Europe, he felt that living in Europe was more complicated societies and offer him ... cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Henry James work was remarkable and outstanding in his lifetime he put out 112 tales, 20 novels, 2 columns of auto biography and part of a third, travel essays and books, 3,000 pages of literary criticism, and 16 p...

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William Somerset Maugham is a writer of a present-day. Maugham started his literary work in the end of nineteenth century. Maugham-novelist, dramatist, wrote more than fifty volumes-plays, novels, essays, travel narratives and hundreds of short stories. He became one of the best known, most universally read and the richest author of the world. He wrote play after play, but ... and nothing to eat. But in the new role he felt much more better. Now he began to paint. Painting - always has been his biggest passion and now he felt free of all pledges and could paint. Circumstances of material wor...

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