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Fauset
U.S. novelist, critic, poet, and editor. Born in Snow Hill, N.J., she studied at Cornell and the Univ. Of Pennsylvania. As literary editor of The Crisis (1919-26), she discovered and encouraged writers of the Harlem Renaissance, incl. L. Hughes, C. Cullen, C. McKay, and Jean Toomer. In her own works, incl. her best-known novel, Comedy: American Style (1933), she portrayed mostly middle-class black characters forced to deal with self-hate as well as racial prejudice.
Sassetta
Italian painter. His interest in Florentine art is evident in his monumental Madonna of the Snow altarpiece for Siena Cathedral (1430-32) and in his most ambitious work, an altarpiece for San Francesco at Sansepolcro (1437-44). His fusion of traditional and contemporary elements transformed Sienese painting from the Gothic to the Renaissance style, and he is considered one of the greatest Sienese painters of the 15th cent.
Undset
Norwegian novelist. Her father was an archaeologist, and her home life was steeped in legend, folklore, and Norwegian history. Her early novels deal with the position of women in the contemporary lower middle class. Her masterpiece, the trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-22), is set in medieval Norway and depicts the spiritual growth of a strong woman. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1924. Her later works, incl. the historical The Master of Hestviken (1925-27) and novels on contemporary themes, reflect her interest in religion. She received the Nobel Prize in 1928.
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