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From 1919 until 1926 Ms Fauset was literary editor of the magazine Crisis, W.E.B. Dubois, editor. From 1920 -1921 she edited and contributed regularly to The Brownie's Book, the child's counterpart of the Crisis, the NAACP magazine. The Best of The Brownies' Book, edited by Dianne Johnson-Feelings and with an introduction by Marian Wright Edelman, is published by Oxford, 1996. The legendary "Civic Club Dinner of March 1924", organized by Charles Spurgeon Johnson, was held to celebrate Fauset's first Novel "There is Confusion". Many of the most important personalities of the Harlem Renaissance were in attendance: The veritable Who's-Who list included W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Click here to order any title below
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 The
Chinaberry Tree and Selected Writings: A Novel of
American Life (The Northeastern Library of Black Literature) Format: Paperback, 398pp. The Chinaberry Tree (1931), Fauset's third novel, is a tale of the lives and loves of two generations of African-American women. Its seemingly quiet small-town setting is the backdrop for such bold and explosive issues as adultery, incest, miscegenation, lust, envy, and deception. The story focuses on two women: Laurentine Strange, the beautiful daughter of a common-law interracial union, tormented by the idea that life has passed her by because of her "bad blood"; and her cousin Melissa Paul, a self-confident teenager to whom even darker secrets are revealed.
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 Plum
Bun: A Novel without a Moral
Format: Paperback, 416pp. Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1929, Plum Bun tells the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl from Philadelphia who discovers she can 'pass' for white.
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 There
Is ConfusionFormat: Paperback, 1st ed., 297pp.
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