A Matter of Complexion

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE “Chakkalakal asks the reader to see the ‘First Negro Novelist’ as he saw himself: a writer and student of American letters at a time when the literary marketplace struggled to take him seriously...a timely reminder of the influence of artists like Charles W. Chesnutt today, when perhaps only literature has the power to sustain us.” - The New York Times Book Review A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first American authors to write for both Black and white