CHARLES W. CHESNUTT ~ BLACK HERITAGE ~ AUTHOR ~ Plate Block of 4 x 41 cents US Postage Stamps Scott 4222

This is a numbered plate block of 4 stamps as pictured. (plate number may vary from stock picture) ~ Charles Waddell Chesnutt was the first black novelist to have his fiction published in the prestigious Atlantic Monthly Magazine and also by major publishers Houghton Mifflin and Doubleday. Chesnutt published three novels, “The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream,” as well as two short story collections. Chesnutt was a founding member of the NAACP and was awarded that organization’s Spingarn Medal for his life’s work.