The Jessie Redmon Fauset Page

( 1882-1961 )

Major Works
There is Confusion ( 1924 ). Reprint with a new foreword by Thadious M. Davis. Northeastern U.P., 1989.
"The Gift of Laughter" in The New Negro. Edited by Alain Locke. Boni, 1925, pp.161-167. Reprint with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Atheneum, 1992.
Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral ( 1929 ). Reprint with a new introduction by Deborah E. McDowell. Beacon, 1990.
The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life ( 1931 ). Reprint with an introduction by Thadious Davis. Hall, 1995.
Comedy: American Style ( 1933 ). Reprint with an introduction by Thadious M. Davis. Hall, 1995.
Two of Ms Fauset's poems appear in The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, pp. 254-255.
From 1919 until 1926 Ms Fauset was literary editor of the magazine Crisis, W.E.B. Dubois, editor. From 1920 -1921 she edited and contributed regularly to The Brownie's Book, the child's counterpart of the Crisis, the NAACP magazine. The Best of The Brownies' Book, edited by Dianne Johnson-Feelings and with an introduction by Marian Wright Edelman, is published by Oxford, 1996.

About Jessie Redmon Fauset
Carolyn Wedin Sylvander, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer. Whitson, 1981.
Jessie Redmon Fauset. from Voices From the Gaps.

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