Answer to Question #317836 in English for Unatie

Question

Briefly explain the background of the author in the novel "quicksand" by Nella Larsen.

Answer 1

The author in the novel "Quicksand" Nella Larsen was an American novelist. Quicksand is her first novel and was first published in 1928. In this fictional autobiography, she explores cross-cultural, gender and interracial themes and wrote it during a period of cultural nationalism in America. Larsen is lauded as a premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance and an important figure in American modernism.