Nella Larsen

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born

April 13, 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

died

March 30, 1964

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Nellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, what she wrote earned her recognition by her contemporaries and by present-day critics.

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Books by Nella Larsen

Average rating: 3.74 · 5,028 ratings · 413 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Passing by Nella Larsen, Ntozake Shange (Introduction), Thadious M. Davis (Editor, Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 3,152 ratings — published 1929 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen, Deborah E. McDowell (Editor), Deborah Mcdowell (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 1,043 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Quicksand by Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis 3.56 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1928 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories by Nella Larsen, Charles Larson (Editor), Marita Golden (Foreword by) 3.96 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories by Nella Larsen, Marita Golden (Foreword by), Charles Larson (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Complete And Unabridged Fiction Of Nella Larsen 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Nella Larsen Collection 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Nella Larsen Collection; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, the Wrong Man, Sanctuary 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Seitenwechsel Roman by Nella Larsen, Adelheid Dormagen (Übersetzer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Nella Larsen

“What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?”
― Nella Larsen, The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

tags: friends

15 people liked it

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ”
― Nella Larsen, The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

tags: motherhood , mothers

12 people liked it

“These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.”
― Nella Larsen, Quicksand

6 people liked it

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Vote for our May Group Read (1900-1940)

Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham (1919)

9 votes, 31.0%

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)

8 votes, 27.6%

Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1936)

4 votes, 13.8%

Precious Bane by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1924)

3 votes, 10.3%

The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham (1929)

3 votes, 10.3%

Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)

2 votes, 6.9%

29 total votes

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