| LC control no. | n 50000075 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3511.A864 |
| Personal name heading | Fauset, Jessie Redmon |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1882-01-27 |
| Death date | 1961-04-30 |
| Place of birth | Camden County (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Novels Fiction Poetry Editing Education African American women |
| Affiliation | Cornell University Phi Beta Kappa University of Pennsylvania The Crisis (Magazine) |
| Profession or occupation | Editors Poets Novelists |
| Found in | Her There is confusion, 1989: p. xii (b. 4-27-1882) 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) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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