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Jessie Fauset biography

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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Snow Hill, New Jersey
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African American writer and editor who is best known for discovering and supporting several writers of the Harlem Renaissance.


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Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African American novelist and editor who is best known for discovering severals writers of the Harlem Renaissance. As editor of the NAACP's magazine The Crisis, she worked with Langston Hughes, Cluade McKay, and others. In her own work, she mostly portrayed middle-class black families dealing with self-hatred. Her best known work is Comedy: American Style.

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