Plum Bun
A Novel Without a Moral
$34.76
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2025
Summary
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.
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, and Langston Hughes, amongst countless others. And yet, her own work has been largely underread in the twe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593731956 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593731956 |
| Author: | Jessie Redmon Fauset |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 203mm x 130mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Torchbearers |
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About The Author
Jessie Redmon Fauset
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.
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