Jessie Fauset was born in Fredericksville (now Lawnside) New Jersey, the daughter of Anna "Annie" Seamon and Redmon Fauset, a Presbyterian minister. Her mother died when Jessie was a young girl. Her father remarried a white woman named Bella Huff. They had three children, including Arthur Fauset.
Fauset was the only African-American graduate in her class at Philadelphia High School for Girls. She was a class of 1905 graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American woman graduate in Phi Beta Kappa. She served as the literary editor (under W.E.B. DuBois) of The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP, from 1919 to 1926. 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931), and Comedy, American Style (1933). She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.
Fauset was a teacher for many years before retiring in 1944. She was predeceased by her husband, Herbert Harris. She died of heart failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Redmon_Fauset
Fauset was the only African-American graduate in her class at Philadelphia High School for Girls. She was a class of 1905 graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American woman graduate in Phi Beta Kappa. She served as the literary editor (under W.E.B. DuBois) of The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP, from 1919 to 1926. 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931), and Comedy, American Style (1933). She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.
Fauset was a teacher for many years before retiring in 1944. She was predeceased by her husband, Herbert Harris. She died of heart failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Redmon_Fauset
Jessie Fauset was born in Fredericksville (now Lawnside) New Jersey, the daughter of Anna "Annie" Seamon and Redmon Fauset, a Presbyterian minister. Her mother died when Jessie was a young girl. Her father remarried a white woman named Bella Huff. They had three children, including Arthur Fauset.
Fauset was the only African-American graduate in her class at Philadelphia High School for Girls. She was a class of 1905 graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American woman graduate in Phi Beta Kappa. She served as the literary editor (under W.E.B. DuBois) of The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP, from 1919 to 1926. 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931), and Comedy, American Style (1933). She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.
Fauset was a teacher for many years before retiring in 1944. She was predeceased by her husband, Herbert Harris. She died of heart failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Redmon_Fauset
Fauset was the only African-American graduate in her class at Philadelphia High School for Girls. She was a class of 1905 graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American woman graduate in Phi Beta Kappa. She served as the literary editor (under W.E.B. DuBois) of The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP, from 1919 to 1926. 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931), and Comedy, American Style (1933). She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.
Fauset was a teacher for many years before retiring in 1944. She was predeceased by her husband, Herbert Harris. She died of heart failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Redmon_Fauset
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