Jessie R. Fauset

As literary editor of The Crisis from 1919 to 1926, Fauset helped bring writers including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer to readers. That publishing work makes a useful companion to her own novels: she was an author exercising judgement about other authors, not simply an assistant to a movement. Follow the route from a manuscript to a magazine page and an audience. The Crisis becomes a place to explore the editorial choices and working relationships behind a remarkable range of writing.