High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Business Career is a novel by African American author Charles Chesnutt that features the life of a new woman of the late 19th century who enters the world of business instead of embracing the tradition roles of women. It explores a failed romance between two successful upper class fixtures in society. A family’s vendetta against the man who allegedly destroyed the family’s fortune turns out to be a mistake as the lead character investigates the matter. The book was written in the 1890s, but failed to get published because it was not acceptable for African American authors to write about white society at that time. It was finally published in 2005 with an introduction and edits by Matthew Wilson.