leave discussions of race out of his plays. This is best exemplified by his play The Brown Overcoat, a typical artificial comedy of the time period with witty comments and puns, avoiding race and social commentary entirely. Despite this, Séjour is still recognized as a great African-American playwright, who had a successful career in France. Personal life Séjour was Catholic. References Bibliography Victor Séjour; Philip Barnard (translator). "The Mulatto." In Nellie Y. McKay and Henry Louis Gates (editors). The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Second edition, Norton, 2004. Victor Séjour; Norman R. Shapiro (translator). The Jew of Seville. University of Illinois Press, 2002. Victor Séjour. "Le Mulâtre". Revue des Colonies Paris, 3:9 (March 1837), pages 376–392. Brickhouse, Anna. Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hatch, James V., and Ted Shine. Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans. New York: Free, 1996. Print. Further reading Charles Edwards O'Neill, Séjour: Parisian Playwright from Louisiana (University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995), a book-length biography. External links "Le Mulâtre" (French) Piacentino, Ed. "Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's 'The Mulatto' ". Southern Spaces. 28 August 2007 The Victor Séjour Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection 1817 births 1874 deaths Writers from New Orleans American writers of Haitian descent Louisiana Creole people American expatriates in France African-American dramatists and playwrights African-American poets American writers in French 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights 19th-century American poets American male poets American male dramatists and playwrights American male short story writers 19th-century American short story writers 19th-century American male writers African-American Catholics African-American male writers