Person
ISNI: 
0000 0001 0910 9756
https://isni.org/isni/0000000109109756
Name: 
Imes, Nella
Larsen, Nella
Larsen, Nellallitea
Larsen, Nellie
Larsen, Nellye
Walker, Nellie
Dates: 
1891-1964
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
Related identities: 
Walker, Nellie (Wirklicher Name; other identity, same person)
Related names: 
Barbirolli, John
Becko, Yves
Dormagen, Adelheid (fl. 2008)
Fisk University (isAffiliatedWith)
Golden, Marita
Graswinckel, Lisette
Kaplan, Carla
Ketèlbey, Albert W. (1875-1959)
Ketèlbey, Albert William (1875-1959)
Larson, Charles R.
McDowell, Deborah E. (1951-)
Murat, Laure
Naxos Digital Services
Villeneuve, Guillaume (1960-...)
Walker, Nellie
Titles: 
(and) Passing
Clair-obscur
complete fiction of Nella Larsen, The
Drijfzand
flying Dutchman, The : Hum and hum, good wheel, go whirling (Spinning chorus)
In a Persian Market
Ketelbey In a Persian Market.
Ketelbey Tangled Tunes (1913-1938)
Passer la ligne
Passing
Passingauthoritative text backgrounds and contexts criticism
Princess Ida (Morgan, Round, Godfrey) (1954)
Quicksand
Seitenwechsel Roman
Sullivan Princess Ida (Morgan, Round, Godfrey) (1954)
Tangled Tunes (1913-1938)
Notes: 
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)
Associated Group: Fisk University Lincoln Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Metropolitan Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.) naf
Her Quicksand, 1928
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)
Novelists Nurses Librarians
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)
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