Nella Larsen was an American novelist born on April 13, 1891 in Illinois. She is best known for her novels Quicksand and Passing. Her net worth, biography, age, height, family, and career updates are available online. She was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance and her works are still studied and celebrated today.
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An American novelist of Danish and African descent, she was a minor figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In the 1920s, she published two novels: Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). The latter work is noteworthy for its ahead-of-its time examination of the gray area of sexual and racial identity.
Following her graduation from nursing school in 1915, she became a nurse at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. She later worked in New York City as a librarian.
She briefly attended Fisk University in Tennessee.
She married physicist Elmer Imes in 1919. The couple divorced in 1933.
She was a friend of writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.
