Memoir, thriller, historical fiction, and romance, Philly writers are telling a plethora of stories. Here's what we'll be ...

In this nostalgic and fascinating book, Julie Satow, author of The Plaza, writes about the golden age of three now-vanished ...

Discover the untold story of Jessie Redmon Fauset, the 'midwife' of the Harlem Renaissance, in Victoria Christopher Murray's ...

This novel explores the life of the “midwife” of the Harlem Renaissance, Jessie Redmon Fauset, literary editor of the NAAACP’s The Crisis magazine and mentor to writers like Countee Cullen ...

Determined to prove herself, Jessie throws herself into helping “The Crisis” thrive by scouting writers who would someday become literary icons, including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and ...

He is shepherding young poets and young novelists and artists. ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: Countee Cullen, Rudolph Fisher, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Dorothy West, and Hale Woodruff all owed their careers ...

Countee Cullen was about 16. Langston Hughes was 17 when he first reached out to her. Nella Larsen had just gotten married. Gwendolyn Bennett was in college when she met Jessie. And I could go on.

Happy National Reading Month! The month coincides with the March 2 birthday of author and cartoonist Dr. Seuss who believed reading was a fundamental skill for children. You might be like John ...