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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]
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several poets criticized Du Bois for neglecting literature, printing pieces the poets had specifically requested not be published, or printing old pieces.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
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.
Fauset was an active figure in the Harlem Renaissance. His older half-sister, Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961), was better known as the Literary Editor of The Crisis, poet, essayist, and published novelist in the 1920s and 1930s. [11] In 1926, Fauset's essay "Symphonesque" won first prize in a contest run by Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life.
The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the invitation only Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College.
[7] Winner of the inaugural essay contest sponsored by The Crisis [8] (whose literary editor at the time was Jessie Redmon Fauset), [9] this essay encouraged black women not to dwell on their problems but to outsmart negative situations.