Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral - Paperback

by Jessie Redmon Fauset (Author), Glory Edim (Introduction by)

A rediscovered classic from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman's journey passing as white in 1920s New York City and her quest for self-acceptance--with an introduction by Glory Edim, founder and author of Well-Read Black Girl.

Jessie Redmon Fauset is one of the literary titans and foremost tastemakers of the Harlem Renaissance--hired by W. E. B. Du Bois to edit The Crisis, she helped popularize writers like Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, amongst countless others. And yet, her own work has been largely underread in the twenty-first century. Written in 1929, at the height of the Harlem renaissance, Fauset's celebrated second novel tells the story of Angela Murray.

Author Biography

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was the daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal minister. She attended Cornell University, where she studied Latin, Greek, German, and French, and became one of the first Black women elected to Phi Beta Kappa. According to some sources she studied at the Sorbonne before earning her M.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania. Fauset began contributing to The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, in 1912. By 1919, she was its literary editor, becoming the first person to publish Langston Hughes's and Gwendolyn Bennett's poetry as well as shaping the careers of Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay.