The “100 Novels Project” (link expired) celebrates the 158-year novel history of African American literature. Using the “100 Novels” (link expired) bibliography, I analyze over 8 dozen assorted factors related to each particular novel as well as the author who wrote it.

Taking a closer look at the data I gathered on each author, I noticed that many of the authors in the collection utilized multiple literary genres to create artistic representations about black life. I then decided to focus more on the short fiction form and identify novelists who, in fact, were better known as short story writers. I have identified five authors who were/are better known as short story writers, but occasionally wrote novels.

Today, I have provided the titles for short stories written by Charles Chesnutt:

The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899)

The Goophered Grapevine

Po’ Sandy

Mars Jeems’s Nightmare

The Conjurere’s Revenge

Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny

The Gray Wolf’s Ha’nt

Hot-Foot Hannibal

 Dave’s Neckliss

A Deep Sleeper

Lonesome Ben

The Dumb Witness

A Victim of Heredity; of, Why

The Darkey Loves Chicken

Tobe’s Tribulations

The Marked Tree

The Wife of His Youthand Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899)

The Wife of His Youth

Her Virginia Mammy

The Sheriff’s Children

A Matter of Principle

Cicely’s Dream

The Passing of Grandison

Uncle Wellington’s Wives

The Bouquet

The Web of Circumstance