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Bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray is taking readers to the Harlem Renaissance in a new historical novel.

The Personal Librarian co-author will publish her new novel, Harlem Rhapsody, next winter through Berkley, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal. The book is based on the true story of Jessie Redmon Fauset. 

In 1919, Fauset arrived in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem as the new literary editor of The Crisis, the leading publication for Black writers founded by W.E.B Du Bois. Fauset, however, wanted to do more than simply edit work — she wanted to foster a literary revolution amongst her peers.