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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 and attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Later she married Herbert Harris, a real estate businessman from New. Jersey. Jessie Fauset's career was varied.
Goldsmith, Meredith L. ‘Jessie Fauset’s Not-So-New Negro Womanhood: The Harlem Renaissance, the Long Nineteenth Century, and the Legacy of Feminine Representation’, American Literary History and the Turn Toward Modernity, edited by Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith (University Press of Florida, 2018), 222-47.
Jessie Redmon Fauset, Thadious M. Davis (Foreword by) Set in Philadelphia some 60 years ago, There Is Confusion traces the lives of Joanna Mitchell and Peter Bye, whose families must come to terms with an inheritance of prejudice and discrimination as they struggle for legitimacy and respect. 297 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1924.
Jessie Fauset, "The Gift of Laughter" (Essay, 1925) THE black man bringing gifts, and particularly the gift of laughter, to the American stage is easily the most anomalous, the most inscrutable figure of the century. All about him and within himself stalks the conviction that like the Irish, the Russian and the Magyar he has some peculiar ...
Jessie Fauset wrote all four of her novels in the remarkably prolific years between 1924 and 1931. All of these works explore race through characters and situations in which the division between black and white seems to blur. In Plum Bun, arguably Fauset’s strongest work, the blurring occurs as the novel’s protago-
In 1929, Jessie Fauset married Herbert Harris, an insurance broker, at the age of 47. The couple resided with Fauset's sister, Helen Lanning, in Harlem, New York until Lanning's death in 1936. Fauset and Harris were separated from 1931 to 1932. In the 1940's, they moved to New Jersey, where they lived until Harris died in 1958.
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist. She wrote more books than any other African-American female novelist of the Harlem Renaissance .
