Jessie Fauset Biography

Jessie Fauset biography

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NAME: Jessie Redmon Fauset
OCCUPATION: Editor, Journalist, Author, Poet
BIRTH DATE: April 27, 1882
DEATH DATE: April 30, 1961
EDUCATION: Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania

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.