Victoria Christopher Murray’s new historical novel, “Harlem Rhapsody,” is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to Jessie Redmon Fauset — the woman that poet Langston Hughes called the “literary midwife of the New Negro Movement.”
Victoria Christopher Murray recently joined Lois Reitzes on “City Lights” ahead of her discussion at the Atlanta History Center on Feb. 4.
Fauset was a pioneering Black writer, editor and mentor whose work at “The Crisis,” the NAACP’s literary magazine, helped launch the careers of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston.
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