American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to ...

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 Nella ...

Girls High graduate, editor, and poet Jessie Redmon Fauset discovered Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Nella Larsen when she was the literary editor of the NAACP ...