Overview
Region
Diaspora
USA
Era
Harlem Renaissance
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Three Black families in Philadelphia and New York navigate ambition, love, and racial identity in the early 20th century. Fauset, literary editor of The Crisis, was the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance.
Literary Significance
Fauset published more Harlem Renaissance writers than anyone else as editor of The Crisis; her own fiction deserves equal recognition