But, Murray said, if Fauset and Du Bois hadn’t been maintaining a rumored secret love affair, the entire legacy, including the Harlem Renaissance, may not have occurred. She was in the city “at his ...

Missing letters, a secret love affair, a famous poet, a beautiful actress — what else could you possibly want in a story? In “The Silenced Muse,” by Sara Fitzgerald, we get all of these and ...