Jessie R. Fauset

Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time. Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism.

27 April 1882

Born on the same birth day (27 April): Cecil Day-Lewis • Dana Milbank • Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti • Fethullah Gülen • Florence La Badie • Im Sang-soo • Isobel Campbell • Jim Keltner • Jules Lemaître • Keenan Allen • Lizzo • Mary Wollstonecraft • Nick Kyrgios • Robert Dhéry • Robin Eames • Sergei Prokofiev • Tim LaHaye • Tommy Smith (saxophonist) • Ángel Comizzo

Born in the same month (April 1882): Albert Coates (musician) • Artur Schnabel • Auguste Herbin • Bert Ironmonger • Frederick Francis IV • Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman • Holland Smith • Hugh Dowding • Isaac Babalola Akinyele • Kurt von Schleicher • Moritz Schlick • Natalia Sedova • Otz Tollen • Percy Williams Bridgman • Philippe Desranleau • Seth Bingham • Song Jiaoren