Harlem On My Mind: Jessie Redmon Fauset. Trymaine Lee: On March 21st, 1924, a Friday night at New York City's elite Civic Club in Greenwich Village, more than 100 people came together for one of ...

Johnson planned to invite twenty guests—a mix of white editors and publishers as well as black intellectuals and literary critics—to honor Jessie Redmon Fauset and the publication of “There ...

This week, let’s talk about a Philadelphian who was instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance — but has been left on the margins of its history. We start with a headline from The Philadelphia ...

Victoria Christopher Murray will publish her new novel, 'Harlem Rhapsody,' in Feb. 2025 through Berkley. The book is based on the true story of Jessie Redmon Fauset.

And at the center of that love letter is a love story - the hidden relationship between Black activist W. E. B. Du Bois and Jessie Redmon Fauset, writer and literary editor of the NAACP's magazine ...

New York Times best selling author Victoria Christopher Murray didn't find the subject of her latest book, Jessie Redmon Fauset. Instead, the author insists, Fauset, one of the leading poets and ...

In today's episode, Murray speaks with NPR's Pien Huang about the historical impact of Fauset's romantic relationship with W.E.B. Du Bois and Murray's decision to include the affair in the book.

As literary editor of the NAACP’s magazine “The Crisis,” Jessie Redmon Fauset was pivotal in championing the poets and authors of the Harlem Renaissance, nurturing the works of authors whose ...

NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.

“‘Harlem Rhapsody’ is my love letter to the extraordinary Jessie Redmon Fauset,” the author says of her forthcoming book and its protagonist Bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray ...

“‘Harlem Rhapsody’ is my love letter to the extraordinary Jessie Redmon Fauset,” the author says of her forthcoming book and its protagonist Jason Frost Photography; Berkley Victoria ...