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Jessie Redmon Fauset

1882 - 1961

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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. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jessie Redmon Fauset has received more than 162,550 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jessie Redmon Fauset is the 6,656th most popular writer, the 13,245th most popular biography from United States and the 966th most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.08

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jessie Redmon Fauset ranks 6,656 out of 7,302. Before her are Patrick Besson, Shirley Ann Grau, Tom Egeland, Catherine Cookson, Rick Falkvinge, and Deborah Feldman. After her are Kim Thúy, Kristina Ohlsson, George Clayton Johnson, Marie Darrieussecq, Greil Marcus, and Édouard Louis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Jessie Redmon Fauset ranks 287. Before her are Daniel Frank, Guy Kibbee, Robert Curry, Bill Tuttle, Albert Bogen, and Géza Kiss. After her are Noah Beery, Creighton Hale, Sam Rayburn, Walter Nash, Dora Marsden, and Jack Hobbs. Among people deceased in 1961, Jessie Redmon Fauset ranks 210. Before her are Maribel Vinson, Tommy Gorman, Tony Bettenhausen, Albert Bogen, Marion Mahony Griffin, and Gwen Lee. After her are Henry O'Neill, Elsie Ferguson, Sam Rayburn, Sheridan Downey, Leo Carrillo, and Joan Davis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jessie Redmon Fauset ranks 13,245 out of 20,380. Before her are Theresa Weld (1893), Huma Abedin (1976), Ginger Fish (1965), Eleonora Sears (1881), Draymond Green (1990), and Patrick McEnroe (1966). After her are George Newbern (1964), Katharine Jefferts Schori (1954), Mary K. Gaillard (1939), Mark Metcalf (1946), Aries Merritt (1985), and Stephen Bowen (1964).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jessie Redmon Fauset ranks 966. Before her are Bosley Crowther (1905), Randall Jarrell (1914), James Weldon Johnson (1871), D. B. Weiss (1971), Shirley Ann Grau (1929), and Deborah Feldman (1986). After her are George Clayton Johnson (1929), Greil Marcus (1945), Joel Surnow (1955), Kevin Poulsen (1965), Mark Van Doren (1894), and Walter Mosley (1952).

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