A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line

by John Cullen Gruesser

Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt, Griggs, as W. E. B. Du Bois remarked, "spoke primarily to the Negro race," using his own Nashville-based publishing company to produce four of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192856316
• ISBN13: 9780192856319
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"