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Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen , born  Nellie Walker  (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964), was an American novelist of the  Harlem Renaissance . First working as a  nurse  and a  librarian , she published two novels— Quicksand  (1928) and  Passing  (1929)—and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries. A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late twentieth century, when issues of racial and sexual identity have been studied. Her works have been the subjects of numerous academic studies. Nella Larsen was born  Nellie Walker  in a poor district of  Chicago  known as the Levee, on April 13, 1891, the daughter of Peter Walker, likely a mulatto  Afro-Caribbean  immigrant from the  Danish West Indies  and Marie Walker,  née  Hansen, a  Danish immigrant . Her mother was a seamstress and domestic worker. Her fat...

Jessie Redmon Fauset  (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist.    Fauset was the literary editor of the  NAACP  magazine  The Crisis . She also was the editor and co-author for the African-American children's magazine  The Brownies' Book . She studied the teachings and beliefs of  W.E.B Du Bois  and considered him to be her mentor. Fauset was known as one of the most intelligent women novelists of the  Harlem Renaissance , earning her the name "the midwife". In her lifetime she wrote four novels as well as poetry and short fiction. Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in  Camden County, New Jersey . She was the daughter of Redmon Fauset, an  African Methodist Episcopal  minister, and Annie Seamon Fauset. Jessie's mother died when she was a child and her father remarried. Fauset came from a large family mired in poverty. She attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls, an...