Fauset, Jessie Redmon (1882-1961), writer, editor, and.

Jessie Redmon Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in New Jersey's Camden County. She grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her family was not well-off, but they valued education.

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) had a career as a teacher, but she is best known for her writing and her contribution to the Harlem Renaissance as literary editor of the Crisis. Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in Camden, New Jersey. She was the seventh child born to Redmon Fauset, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Annie Seamon.

Fauset's half-sister, Jessie Redmon Fauset Harris, is represented by only a photograph and an outline (typescript) of Junior Reading Book on Negro-White Relationships, written by her. The overwhelming quantity of material in the Fauset papers is drafts of various pieces of writing.

Jessie “Redmon” Fauset was born in Fredericksville, New Jersey, on 17 April 1882, the seventh child of Reverend Redmon and Annie Fauset. Her early education was marked by transition as the Philadelphia area negotiated the end of school segregation.

Fauset makes more sense when examined as an editor as well as a novelist and when discussed in relation to her particular environment. Fauset had a long association with Crisis. From 1912, she contributed reviews, essays, poems and short stories to the journal. She served as literary editor from November, 1919 until May, 1926. Within that period.

Jessie Redmon Fauset, the seventh child of Redmon and Annie Seamon Fauset, was born in Camden County, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia. In her own personal statements, Fauset claims Philadelphia as her birthplace and the parsonage as her home. Her father was a Presbyterian minister.

Jessie Redmon Fauset was born April 27, 1882, in Camden, New Jersey. Her parents were Redmon Fauset, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Annie Seamon Fauset. Redmon Fauset married Bella Huff after the death of Annie Fauset and the couple moved their family to Philadelphia.

Although she had been writing for The Crisis since her undergraduate days, it was not literary aspiration that spurred Jessie Redmon Fauset to write novels, but rather the 1922 publication of T. S.

JESSIE REDMON FAUSET (1885-1961): A Selected Annotated Bibliography JANET L. SIMS April 1981 marks the 20th anniversary of Jessie Fauset's death. Born in Philadelphia in 1885, Jessie Fauset was the first Black woman to attend Cornell University and graduate Phi Beta Kappa. She received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jessie Redmon Fauset's novel, Plum Bun, is a story of African American self-hatred told through the life of the protagonist, Angela Murray and her family, who are divided by color. Plum Bun was set in the 1920s, which was a time of tremendous change in America in many areas including technology, economics, and civil rights.

Jessie Redmon Fauset is the author of four novels: There is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree (1931), and Comedy, American Style (1933).She also wrote poems and essays, and worked as an educator. Fauset rented rooms in five locations in DC while teaching at M Street High School; two still stand.

Jessie Redmon Fauset. Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) had a career as a teacher, but she is best known for her writing and her contribution to the Harlem Renaissance as literary editor of the Crisis. Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in Camden, New Jersey.She was the seventh child born to Redmon Fauset, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Annie Seamon Fauset.