George washington cable biography

Cable, George Washington,, Writer and the local color era Cable wrote of Creole New Orleans, and he has been called the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer.

He is praised both for his courageous essays on civil rights, such as The Silent South () and The Negro Question (), and for his early fiction about New Orleans, especially Old Creole Days () The Grandissimes (), and Madame Delphine ().

Cable was not a Creole himself, but he had deep roots in New Orleans. He was born and grew up there, and, after service as a Confederate soldier, he returned to live and work in the city until , when he moved to Massachusetts.

Cable's study of the colonial history of Louisiana while writing sketches for the Picayune revealed "the decline of an aristocracy under the pressure of circumstances," as well as the "length and blackness" of the shadow in the southern garden.

In his essay "My Politics" Cable tells how his reading