A minor, though pivotal, figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Jessie Redmon Fauset was the author of four novels and numerous short stories, essays, poems, and articles written between 1910 and 1933. From 1919 to 1926 she was the literary editor of the...

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) had a career as a teacher, but she is best known for her writing and her contribution to the Harlem Renaissance as literary editor of the Crisis. Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in Camden, New Jersey. She was the...

Writer Jessie Redmon Fauset represented the emergence of an authentic African-American voice in American literature. Fauset corresponded with W.E.B. Du Bois while she attended language courses at Cornell University. Impressed by her writing, Du Bois...

Born April 27, 1882 Camden County, New Jersey Died April 30, 1961 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania American editor and novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset felt strongly that black writers were best qualified to describe the African American experience, and she...

Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African American editor, poet, essayist and novelist. She was the most prolific female novelist of the Harlem...

Jessie Redmon Fauset was a celebrated educator, novelist, poet, critic, but was best known as literary editor of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Crisis. In her post at The Crisis she served as mentor to some of the brightest stars of the Harlem Renaissance. Langston...

In June 1924, three months after the publication of There Is Confusion, Jessie Redmon Fauset confided in her friend and erstwhile protégé Langston Hughes that she planned to begin working on her next novel the following month (24 June 1924). From Paris four months...

[There is] far more to Jessie Fauset than melodrama, romance, conventionality, and middle-class material…. A deep pain and anger affect both the form and content of her novels. They are not at all as conventional as they have appeared. Except for her rambling first novel, all her books have a double structure. On the surface they read as conventional middle-class love stories with happy endings; underneath these developing romances, though, lies a counterstructure which expresses either the souring o...

Though faulty, ["The Chinaberry Tree"] is the work of a remarkable psychologist who can be congratulated not simply because her material is interesting but because she has understood so well the human factors involved in it…. The book attempts to idealize [the] polite colored world in terms of the white standards that it has adopted. And here lies the root of Miss Fauset's artistic errors. When she parades the possessions of her upper classes and when she puts her lovers through ...

[Jesse Fauset's] Foreword to The Chinaberry Tree announced her orientation. She first makes the statement that "to be a Negro in America posits a dramatic situation." But then she goes on to her major concern: "But of course there are breathing spells, in-between spaces where colored men and women work and love and go their ways with no thought of the 'problem.'" She has just taken the "dramatic situation" out of the formula. Indeed, the racial ...

An informational paper on the life of Jesse Redmon Fauset a famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes an explication of her poem "Noblesse Oblige."