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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]
Also included are poems by Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes, and Jessie Fauset. The world premiere of Songs of the Harlem River was produced with Theater for the New City at the Xoregos Performing Company as a part of NYC's Dream Up Festival where it played six performances in August and September 2015, directed and choreographed by Sheila ...
[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]
He is the author of Party of Black (2006), A Day of Presence (2008), Bottle of Life (2010), Speak Water (2012), winner of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, [1] and My TV is Not the Boss of Me (2013), Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award Finalist 2014, [2] a children's book, illustrated by Cory Thomas.
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961) Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961) Frederick Feirstein (born 1940) Irving Feldman (born 1928) Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021) Bessie Alexander Ficklen (1861–1945) Eugene Field (1850–1895) Rachel Field (1894–1942) James T. Fields (1817–1881) Annie Finch (born 1956) Mike Finley (1950–2020) Charles C ...
Despite the deprivations, Grateful Life beat jail and it gave addicts time to think. Many took the place and its staff as inspiration. They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry.
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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 .