Nella Larsen

Nellallitea “Nella” Larsen (April 13rd 1891 – March 30th 1964) was a mongrel writer of the Renaissance of Harlem, which wrote two short novels and several accounts. It was born with Chicago from a Danish mother and a West-Indian father.

She studied with the Fisk University, to Nashville (Tennessee) then spent four years to Denmark before going back to the USA. She passed her diploma for the occupation of nurse to New York then worked with the Tuskegee Institute with Tuskegee (Alabama). It is there that it made the meeting of Booker T. Washington. It went back food to New York and married Elmer Samuel Imes in 1919. Her husband was doctor in physics. The couple settled in the district of Harlem; Nella Larsen worked with section of the library of New York of the 135e street. It was made relations among the artists, writers and intellectual Afro-Americans of Harlem, it was devoted entirely to the writing since 1926: it published in 1928 Quicksand , an autobiographical novel, then Passing in 1929, which was a great success. After showbeing shown of plagiarism for Sanctuary in 1930, she travelled to Europe and went back to New York in 1933 and divorced.

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