Synopses & Reviews
Between 1926 and 1930 -- during the golden era of the Harlem Renaissance -- Nella Larsen published two novels and three stories and enjoyed a brief period of fame and popularity equal to that of any of the literary stars of that period. And while in 1930 she became the first black woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, by 1933 she had disappeared from the literary scene, never to publish again. But Nella Larsen's work is just as compelling and relevant today, in an increasingly multicultural America, as it was in the 1920's.
In "The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen" (originally published by Anchor in 1992 under the title An Intimation of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen) Charles R. Larson, a leading authority on Third World literature, has compiled a unique and important volume. The stories have been unavailable for years, and their inclusion here, along with the correct ending of Passing, distinguishes this as the definitive edition of Larsen's work.