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Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen (born Nellie Walker; April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964) was an American novelist. Working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), and a few short stories.
Nella Larsen (born April 13, 1891, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died March 30, 1964, New York, New York) was an American novelist and short-story writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Larsen was born in Chicago to a Danish mother and a West Indian father who died when she was two years old.
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Mar 8, 2018 · 1891-1964. Nella Larsen. A Harlem Renaissance-era writer whose heritage informed her modernist take on the topic of race. By BONNIE WERTHEIM. When Nella Larsen died, in 1964, she left...
- Bonnie Wertheim
Jan 19, 2007 · Nella Larsen, nurse, librarian, and, writer, was born Nella Marie Larsen in Chicago, Illinois in 1891 to a Danish mother and a black West Indian father. Knowing little about her father after his death when she was two years old, she was reared in the home with her mother, remarried to a Danish man, and her half-sister.
Mar 2, 2021 · Though Nella Larsen’s classic 1929 novel is understood to be a tragedy, it also exposes race to be something of a farce.
- Brit Bennett
Nov 10, 2021 · The one thing most people know about Nella Larsen's Passing is that it explores a peculiar kind of deception — being born into one marginalized racial category and slipping into...
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May 14, 2018 · Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen (1893-1963) received the Guggenheim Award in 1930 to support her continued work on the psychological novel at a time when the novel of social realism overshadowed her genuine literary talent.
