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Jessie Redmon Fauset

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
April 26 1882
Died
2929 04 19611961
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist.

Fauset was born in Fredericksville, an all-black hamlet in Camden County, New Jersey, also known as Free Haven . She was the daughter of Anna "Annie" Seamon and Redmon Fauset, a Presbyterian minister. Her mother died when she was still a young girl. Her father remarried Bella Huff , and they had three children, including civil rights activist and folklorist Arthur Fauset .

Fauset attended Philadelphia High School for girls, and graduated as the only African American in her class. After high school Fauset graduated from Cornell University in 1905, and is believed to be the second black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She later received her M.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania. Fauset came to the NAACP's journal, The Crisis, in 1912. From 1919 to 1926 she served as the literary editor of The Crisis under W. E. B. Du Bois. Eventually 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion , Plum Bun , The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life , and Comedy, American Style . She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.

Fauset worked as a schoolteacher for many years and retired from teaching in 1944. She died in 1961 from heart failure.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
April 26 1882
Died
2929 04 19611961
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist.

Fauset was born in Fredericksville, an all-black hamlet in Camden County, New Jersey, also known as Free Haven . She was the daughter of Anna "Annie" Seamon and Redmon Fauset, a Presbyterian minister. Her mother died when she was still a young girl. Her father remarried Bella Huff , and they had three children, including civil rights activist and folklorist Arthur Fauset .

Fauset attended Philadelphia High School for girls, and graduated as the only African American in her class. After high school Fauset graduated from Cornell University in 1905, and is believed to be the second black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She later received her M.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania. Fauset came to the NAACP's journal, The Crisis, in 1912. From 1919 to 1926 she served as the literary editor of The Crisis under W. E. B. Du Bois. Eventually 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion , Plum Bun , The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life , and Comedy, American Style . She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.

Fauset worked as a schoolteacher for many years and retired from teaching in 1944. She died in 1961 from heart failure.

Books from Jessie Redmon Fauset

There Is Confusion

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Chinaberry Tree

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Comedy: American Style

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s: Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry

4.2/5 ( ratings)

African American Literature: A Concise Anthology From Frederick Douglass To Toni Morrison

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Soul of a Woman (Black Classics)

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Crisis, Vol. 20: October, 1920 (Classic Reprint)

4/5 ( ratings)

Brotherhood: Poems from the Harlem Renaissance

4/5 ( ratings)

Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

4/5 ( ratings)

Emmy

4/5 ( ratings)

Černošská poesie

4/5 ( ratings)

There Is Confusion (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)

4/5 ( ratings)

There Is Confusion

4/5 ( ratings)

The Carolina Magazine: "Negro Number" May 1928 (Subscription to the Harlem Renaissance: Reproductions of Historic Periodicals)

4/5 ( ratings)

Black Love: Romantic Poems By Harlem Renaissance Women

4/5 ( ratings)

The Book of American Negro Poetry

4/5 ( ratings)
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