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Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. [ 1 ]
[3] [1] The magazine's literary editor was Jessie Redmon Fauset. [1] Each year, The Crisis published an issue referred to as the "Children's Number", which included stories, photographs, games, poetry, and educational achievements of black children. [4]
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral is a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset first published in 1928. Written by an African-American woman who, during the 1920s, was the literary editor of The Crisis , it is often seen as an important contribution to the Harlem Renaissance .
In her biography of Fauset, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer, Carolyn Wedin Sylvander writes that after Fauset's departure, several poets criticized Du Bois for neglecting literature, printing pieces the poets had specifically requested not be published, or printing old pieces.
“‘Harlem Rhapsody’ is my love letter to the extraordinary Jessie Redmon Fauset,” the author says of her forthcoming book and its protagonist
W.E.B. DuBois publishes The Brownies’ Books, a monthly magazine for African American children that includes fiction, poetry, and world events. Author and teacher Jessie Redmon Fauset is the editor. 1926. Historian Carter G. Woodson proposes Negro History Week. 1927. Charlemae Hill Rollins is hired by the Chicago Public Library as a children's ...
The poem was first published in The Crisis in June 1921, [5] and was later collected into the 1926 The Weary Blues. [6] The poet Jessie Redmon Fauset, who was the literary editor of The Crisis, was responsible for the initial acceptance and publication of "The
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 30 – Jessie Redmon Fauset, 79 (born 1885), American novelist and poet [7] June 26 – Kenneth Fearing, 58 (born 1902), American poet and writer; September 27 – Hilda Doolittle, known as H.D., 75 (born 1886), American poet, novelist, and memoirist, [7] of a heart attack