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Person Detail: Jessie Redmon Fauset

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Full Name: Jessie Redmon Fauset
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(1882-1961) Writer, novelist. Jessie Redmon Fauset was the most prolific female writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Author's Timeline:
1905 Tompkins County
Fauset received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1905 and is possibly the first African-American in Phi Beta Kappa. 
1882 (Unknown) County
Jessie Redmona Fauset was born in Snow Hill Center Township, New Jersey, in 1882. 
1961 (Unknown) County
Jessie Redmon Faucet died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1961. 
1929 (Unknown) County
Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral
(Pub: Frederick A. Stokes. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1924 (Unknown) County
There Is Confusion
(Pub: New York: Boni and Liveright. ISBN: )
Novel. 
1933 (Unknown) County
Comedy: American Style
Novel. 
1931 (Unknown) County
The Chinaberry Tree
Novel. 
1927 Bronx County
Fauset taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, from 1927 to 1944. 
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