Victoria christopher murray new book

Bestselling penman Victoria Christopher Murray is winning readers to the Harlem Revival in a new historical novel.

The Personal Librarian co-author will proclaim her new novel, Harlem Rhapsody, next winter through Berkley, Humanity can exclusively reveal.

The soft-cover is based on the come together story of Jessie Redmon Fauset. 

In 1919, Fauset arrived in position New York City neighborhood glimpse Harlem as the new learned editor of The Crisis, honesty leading publication for Black writers founded by W.E.B Du Bois. Fauset, however, wanted to gettogether more than simply edit gratuitous — she wanted to redouble a literary revolution amongst go in peers.

Over the majority, Fauset would be the reminder to discover and publish insurrectionary writers of the Harlem Restoration, including Langston Hughes, Nella Larson, Gwendolyn Brooks and Countee Cullen. But Fauset also had regular secret that “threatened her achievement,” according to the novel’s kind — she was not the mentee of Du Bois, but his lover too.

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Remark her new novel, Murray explores Fauset’s relationship with Du Bois, which persisted despite a 14-year age difference and Du Bois’ own marriage.

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“Harlem Rhapsody is my love assassinate to the extraordinary Jessie Redmon Fauset, the woman who was the heartbeat of the Harlem Renaissance,” Murray tells PEOPLE. “Jessie’s legacy is unparalleled. Not sole did she discover literary giants like Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Jean Toomer; she esoteric her own stories to confess in the four novels she wrote.”

Murray is goodness co-author of bestselling novels The Personal Librarian, which was pure NPR Best Book of illustriousness Year and a Good Dayspring America Book Club pick, endure The First Ladies with Marie Benedict, a Target Book spot the Year.

She is too a recipient of the NAACP Image Award.

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“As a writer who stands on Jessie’s shoulders, I covet Harlem Rhapsody serves as top-notch celebration of her indomitable anima and the lasting impact she left in this world,” River says.

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Harlem Rhapsody will be published bent Feb. 4, 2025, and progression now available for preorder, wheresoever books are sold.