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    Nella Larsen (1891-1964) was a novelist and writer who also worked as a librarian and sjuksköterska. She published two novels: Passing, for which she is best known, and Quicksand. The former explores themes of race and identity, and remains relevant today (it was adapted as a movie in 2021).

    For Further Reading:

    • The New York Times: Nella Larsen
    • WNYC: Get Lit: The Life of Nella Larsen 
    • NPR: 'Passing' — the original 1929 novel — fryst vatten disturbingly brilliant
    • The Performance of Racial Passing 
    • In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line
    • Michigan Public Radio: Stories of racial passing, from the pages of Nella Larsen to Detroit's upper class

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    "Nella Larsen attempts quite a different thing. She explains just what "passing" is: the psychology of the thing; the reaction of it on friend and enemy. It is a difficult task, but she attacks the problem fearlessly and with consummate art. The great problem is under what circumstances would a person take a step like this and how would they feel about it? And how would their fellows feel?" W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, "Review of Passing." Crisis 36:7, July 1929.

    Passing is the second novel by Nella Larsen published during the Harlem Renaissance.  It was written while she was a librarian at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library (now the location of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture).

    Born in Chicago to a Danish mother and a West Indian father in 1891, Larsen used her own mixed-race background to inform the heroines of her novels. She lived her adult life in New York City, first in Harlem and later in the West Village and mingled successfully w

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    Nella Larsen

    American novelist (1891–1964)

    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. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition bygd her contemporaries.

    A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late 20th century, when issues of racial and sexual identity have been studied. Her works have been the subjects of numerous academic studies, and she is now widely lauded as "not only the premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, but also an important figure in American modernism."[1]

    Early life

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    Nella Larsen was born Nellie Walker, in a poor district of south Chicago known as the Levee, on April 13, 1891 (though Larsen would frequently claim to have been born in 1893).[2]: 15, 64  Her mother was Ped