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AUGUSTUS HODGES
Augustus
M. Hodges, a noted journalist and fiction writer, had a predilection for writing
Christmas stories. He is the author of “The
Christmas
Reunion
Down at
Martinsville
,” “The
Prodigal Daughter: A Story of Three Christmas Eves,” “Three Men and a
Woman,” and
“Three Christmas Eves.”
Born in
Williamsburg
,
New York
in 1854, Hodges was a graduate of the Hampton
Normal and Industrial Institute. Like
his illustrious father Willis A. Hodges, a pioneering journalist and
abolitionist, Hodges dedicated his life to fighting racism and bigotry. In 1876,
he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he served for one term,
and in 1890, he established the prestigious African-American journal the Brooklyn
Sentinel. “The Blue and the Gray” was originally printed in the Indianapolis
Freeman, which published many of his short stories.
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