tribute to his editor Richard Watson Gilder, when he wrote "I think he was peculiarly an authors' editor, and not merely a publishers'."; this is the earliest known use of the term in print. Works Old Creole Days (1879) The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (1880) Madame Delphine (1881) Dr. Sevier (1882) The Creoles of Louisiana (1884) Bonaventure (1888) The Silent South (1889) The Negro Question (1890) Strange True Stories of Louisiana (1890) The Busy Man's Bible and How to Study and Teach It (1891) A Memory of Roswell Smith (1892) Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (1893) John March, Southerner (1894) Strong Hearts (1899) The Cavalier (1901) Bylow Hill (1902) Kincaid's Battery (1908) Possen Jone' and Pere Raphael (1909) The Amateur Garden (1914) Gideon's Band (1914) The Flower of the Chapdelaines (1917) Lovers of Louisiana (1918) See also George Washington Cable House Further reading Andrews, William L., Minrose Gwin, Trudier Harris and Fred Hobson, eds., The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, p. 275-276 Cleman, John, George Washington Cable Revisited, Ed. Nancy Walker, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996, pp. 1–19 Forkner, Ben, Samway, Patrick, eds., A New Reader of the Old South, Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers,1991, Forkner, Ben, Samway, Patrick, eds., Stories of the Old South, New York: Viking Penguin,1989, Harrison, Suzan, "The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life," Masterplots, Revised Second Edition, Salem Press, 1996 Lauter, Paul, ed., The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4th edition, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002 Pizer, Donald and Earl N. Harbert, eds., Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Realists and Naturalists, volume 12, Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1982 Rubin, Louis D., Writers of the Modern South: The Faraway Country, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966 Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War, New York: Oxford University Press, 1962 References External links Works by George Washington Cable, at Hathi Trust Finding aid to George Washington Cable papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. "George Washington Cable: resources", American Authors (hosted by Washington State University) Bond Thompson, Armistead Lemon, "Summary: George Washington Cable (1844-1925)/ The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina "George Washington Cable", Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 1989, hosted at Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina George Washington Cable Collection at The Historic