Jessie Redmon Fauset

Primary Works Secondary Works



PRIMARY WORKS

BOOKS:

There is Confusion. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924; London: Chapman & Hall, 1924.

Plum Bun. New York: Stokes, 1929; London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929.

The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life. New York: Stokes, 1931; London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1932.

Comedy, American Style. New York: Stokes, 1933.

"The Gift of Laughter," in The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke. New York: Boni, 1925.


PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS:

FICTION:

"Emmy," Crisis, 5 (December 1912): 79-87; 5 (January 1913): 134-142.

"My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein," Crisis, 8 (July 1914): 143-145.

"'There Was One Time,' A Story of Spring," Crisis, 13 (April 1917): 272-277; 14 (May 1917): 11-15.

"The Sleeper Wakes," Crisis, 20 (August 1920): 168-173; 20 (September 1920): 226-229; 20 (October 1920): 267-274.

"When Christmas Comes," Crisis, 25 (December 1922): 61-63.

"Double Trouble," Crisis, 26 (August 1923): 155-159; 26 (September 1923): 205-209.


POETRY

"Rondeau," Crisis, 3 (April 1912): 252.

"Again It Is September," Crisis, 14 (September 1917).

"The Return," Crisis, 27 (January 1919): 118.

"Mary Elizabeth," Crisis, 19 (December 1919): 51-56.

"Oriflamme," Crisis, 19 (January 1920): 128.

"La Vie C'est La Vie," Crisis, 24 (July 1922): 124.

"Dilworth Road Revisited," Crisis, 24 (August 1922): 167.

"Song for a Lost Comrade," Crisis, 25 (November 1922): 22.

"Rencontre," Crisis, 27 (January 1924): 122.

"Here's April!," Crisis, 27 (January 1924): 277.

"Rain Fugue," Crisis, 28 (August 1924): 155.

"Stars in Alabama," Crisis, 35 (January 1928): 14.

"'Courage!'He Said," Crisis, 36 (November 1929): 378.


Nonfiction

"New Literature on the Negro," Crisis, 20 (June 1920): 78-83.

"Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress," Crisis, 22 (November 1921): 12-18.

"What Europe Thought of the Pan African Congress," Crisis, 22 (December 1921): 60-69.


SECONDARY WORKS

Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Literature. New York: Facts on File, Inc., Vol. 2, 1997, 76-81.

Gayle, Addison. The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America. Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976.

Johnson, Abby Arthur. "Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance," Phylon (June 1978): 143-153.

Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph.Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 102-108.

Starkey, Marion. "Jessie Fauset," Southern Workman (May 1932): 217-220.

Sylvander, Carolyn Wedin. "Jessie Redmon Fauset," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 51. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 76-85.

Sylvander, Carolyn Wedin. Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer. Troy, New York: Whitston, 1981.




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