Plum Bun

Name: Plum Bun
Author: Jessie Redmon Fauset

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

Novel of Black woman passing as white while navigating racial and class boundaries

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Jessie Redmon Fauset

Jessie Redmon Fauset was literary editor of The Crisis and a prolific novelist who depicted the aspirations and social constraints of the Black middle class with realism and feminist insight. W.E.B. Du Bois called her one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance.

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