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Langston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at The Crisis magazine from 1919 until 1926, Fauset discovered and championed some of the most important Black writers of the early 20th century. Her own novels contributed to The New Negro Movement’s cultural examination of race, class and gender through the lens of women’s experiences. Fauset’s 1928 novel Plum Bun was republished this spring by Quite Literally Books, a new publishing venture that reissues books by American women authors. The founders, Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper, join us to discuss their mission and take a closer look at Fauset’s life and work.

Mentioned in this episode:

Quite Literally Books

Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset

The Pink House by Nelia Gardner

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 9 on Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 140 on Zora Neale Hurston

Persephone Books

Virago Books

Cita Press

The Crisis magazine

“What is Racial Passing?” on PBS’s The Origin of Everything

“The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance” by Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-Curry

Langston Hughes

Jean Toomer

Arna Bontemps

Countee Cullen

Gwendolyn Bennett

W.E.B. Dubois

Charles Johnson

Alain Locke

Regina Andrews

The Talented Tenth

“The New Negro Movement”

Harlem Rhapsod

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