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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 161,971 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jessie Redmon Fauset is the 6,655th most popular writer, the 13,235th most popular biography from United States and the 966th most popular American Writer.

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  • 15

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  • 2.18

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  • 3.08

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Notable Works

Comedy, American style
Fiction, African American families, African Americans
1933
Plum bun
African Americans, African Americans in fiction, Fiction
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don't fade with the color of one's skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.
1900
There is confusion
Fiction, African Americans, African American women
1920
Chinaberry Tree : A Novel of American Life : a Novel of American Life by
2023
The chinaberry tree
African American women, Fiction, Women
1931
Comedy
Fiction, family life, African americans, fiction, African American families
1996

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jessie Redmon Fauset ranks 6,655 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 13,235 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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