| LC control no. | n 50036428 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3523.A7225 |
| Personal name heading | Larsen, Nella |
| Variant(s) | Walker, Nellie, 1891-1964 Larsen, Nellye Larsen, Nellie Imes, Nella |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1891-04-13 |
| Death date | 1964-03-30 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Fisk University Lincoln Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Metropolitan Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Nurses Librarians |
| Found in | Her Quicksand, 1928. Passing, 1997: CIP t.p. (Nella Larsen) CIP galley (Nellie Walker; b. Apr. 13, 1891, Chicago; Harlem Renaissance writer; in 1901, came to New York, worked as a nurse and librarian; began publishing stories in 1928; d. 1964) In Black and white, c1980 (Larsen, Nella; (Mrs. Elmer S. Imes); 1893 [sic]-1963 [sic]; novelist; taught nursing at Tuskegee; social worker; children's librarian) Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, c1994 (Nellie Walker; b. Apr. 13, 1891, Chicago; appropriated 1893, as the year of her birth; her sister, Anna was born in 1893; Nellye Larsen; Nellie Larsen; Nella Larsen Imes; d. Mar. 30, 1964) African American National Biography, accessed February 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Larsen, Nella; Nellie Walker; “Allen Semi”; fiction writer; born 13 April 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; completed high school at the Normal School of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she took the name “Larsen” and began to use “Nella” as her given name (1907); claimed to have spent years in Denmark (1909-1912); graduated from a three-year nurses' training course at New York City's Lincoln Hospital (1915); worked a year at the John A. Andrew Hospital and Nurse Training School in Tuskegee, Alabama and with the New York Public Library (1922); her first novel, “Quicksand” (1928) won the Harmon Foundation's Bronze Medal for literature; became the first black woman to receive a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for her second novel “Passing” (1929); traveled to Spain and France (1930); returned to New York where she was a supervisor at Gouverneur Hospital (1944-1961) and worked at the Metropolitan Hospital (1961-1964); her novels were considered “lost” until the 1970s; her reputation was recovered during the rise of the feminist movement (in the 1970s); died 30 March 1964 in New York, New York, United States) |
| National bib agency no. | 1041G3794E |
| Quality code | nlc |
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