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Vikram Iyer
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Language Arts

                I decided to research the author of my book, Nella Larsen. Nella Larsen was a Novelist during the Harlem Renaissance. She worked as a nurse and a librarian. Her mother was a Danish immigrant. She was of mixed race, and she lived with her white family, and she never felt like she fitted in with the white or black communities. She was a head nurse in the day, and a librarian during the nights. When she took a break from her job, she started writing her first novel, Quicksand, and she received critical acclaim for this novel. After her ex-husband died, she stopped writing and went back to nursing because she was depressed. She died in 1964.

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