Biography
Cable was innate inside New Orleans, Louisiana. He served in the Confederate Army during a American Civil War. At a prevent of the war within 1865 he went into journalism, writing for the New Orleans Picayune in which he would remain across 1879. By that period he was the swell constituted writer. His sympathy for civil rights and antipathy towards the coarse racism of the era showed in his writings, which earned him gall by several whiten southerners. He moved to Massachusetts in 1884. He became friends by owning Mark Twain, and them writers did speaking tours together.

Cable died inside Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Works
His first works come Old Creole Days, The Grandissimes, and Madame Delphine.