George Washington Cable

George Washington Cable (1844–1925) was an American novelist, born in New Orleans in 1844 and died in Florida in 1925. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, and after the war he worked as a reporter for the Picayune. Writing in a realist mode about the lives of Louisiana Creoles, he has been called "the first modern Southern writer." His representative works include Old Creole Days and The Grandissimes. This site holds two of his works, Kincaids Battery and The Flower of the Chapdelaines, commonly categorized as inspirational growth. Publicly available information on his life and writing is limited; readers may turn to his fiction to learn more about his style and subject matter.