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(1882-1961) Writer, novelist. Jessie Redmon Fauset was the most prolific female writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Full Name

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline

Unknown

LITWORK

"There Is Confusion"

1882

BIRTH

Jessie Redmona Fauset was born in Snow Hill Center Township, New Jersey, in 1882.

1905

OTHER

Fauset received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1905 and is possibly the first African-American in Phi Beta Kappa.

1924

LITWORK

There Is Confusion
New York: Boni and Liveright.

Novel.

1927

OTHER

Fauset taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, from 1927 to 1944.

1929

LITWORK

Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral
Frederick A. Stokes.

Novel.

1931

LITWORK

The Chinaberry Tree


Novel.

1933

LITWORK

Comedy: American Style


Novel.

1961

DEATH

Jessie Redmon Faucet died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1961.

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