| International Standard Book Number |
9798217067558 (paperback ; large print)
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| Personal Name |
Murray, Victoria Christopher, author.
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| Title Statement |
Harlem rhapsody / Victoria Christopher Murray.
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| Edition Statement |
First large print edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[New York, New York] : Random House Large Print, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
544 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
"A novel"--Cover.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realize her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all. W. E. B. Du Bois, the founder of The Crisis, is not only Jessie's boss, he's her lover. And neither his wife, nor their fourteen-year-age difference can keep the two apart. Amidst rumors of their tumultuous affair, Jessie is determined to prove herself. She attacks the challenge of discovering young writers with fervor, finding sixteen-year-old Countee Cullen, seventeen-year-old Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen, who becomes one of her best friends. Under Jessie's leadership, The Crisis thrives...every African American writer in the country wants their work published there. When her first novel is released to great acclaim, it's clear that Jessie is at the heart of a renaissance in Black music, theater, and the arts. She has shaped a generation of literary legends, but as she strives to preserve her legacy, she'll discover the high cost of her unparalleled success."-- Back cover
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Fauset, Jessie Redmon Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Adultery Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Harlem Renaissance Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type books Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New York (N.Y.) 20th century Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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