Nella Larsen

Larsen was born Nellie Walker on April 13, 1891, in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant parents. Her father, Peter Walker, was a black cook from the West Indies, and her mother, Mary Hanson, was a Danish seamstress. Soon after Larsen was born, her father disappeared. Her mother remarried a white man named Peter Larsen. When Larsen’s younger sister was born, Larsen  was the only … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Women in the Harlem Renaissance