Jessie R. Fauset

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Collection & Letters

Langston Hughes Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Jessie R. Fauset.

This collections contains correspondence from Fauset to W.E.B. Du Bois

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Birth
April 27, 1882, Lawnside, NJ
Death
April 30, 1961 (age 79), Philadelphia, PA
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Author Fauset (half-brother)

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Laura Wheeler Waring (close friend)

Alma Mater

Cornell University (B.A. Classical Languages, 1905)

University of Pennsylvania (M.A. French, 1919)

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The Crisis: Contributor (1918), Literary Editor (1919-1926); Brownie's Book (Literary Editor); Educator, Dunbar High School (French and Latin)
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There is Confusion (novel, 1924)

Plum Bun (novel, 1928)

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*some sources say April 6, 1845

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