From Library of Congress Name Authority File
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
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Birth Date
- (edtf) 1882-01-27
Death Date
- (edtf) 1961-04-30
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Cornell University
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Phi Beta Kappa
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Has Affiliation
- Organization: The Crisis (Magazine)
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Sources
- found: Her There is confusion, 1989:p. xii (b. 4-27-1882)
- found: Her Comedy, American style, 1994:CIP t.p. (Jessie Redmon Fauset) publisher's info (1882-1961 ; was a key figure in early 20th-century African-American literature, both as a poet and novelist and as an editor of Crisis)
- found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century , accessed January 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Fauset, Jessie Redmon; educator, fiction writer, magazine and journal editor / publisher, poet; born 26 April 1882 Near Philadelphia, Camden County, New Jersey, United States; Cornell's first black female student, graduated in 1905 with a BA and election to Phi Beta Kappa; literary editor of The Crisis (1919); completed the requirements for her master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania (1919); died 30 April 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
LC Classification
- PS3511.A864
Change Notes
- 1980-02-08: new
- 2016-07-13: revised
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