Quicksand

Quicksand is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, first published in 1928. This is her first novel and the first draft was completed in a short period of time. The novel was out of print from the 1930s-1970s. Quicksand is a work exploring both cross-cultural and interracial themes. Larson dedicated the novel to her husband.

     Nella Larsen was a very successful African-American fiction writer. Nella Larsen’s appearance with her writing of Quicksand and Passing won her the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Award for creative writing. Nella Larsen’s work contains an overall view of the world from the Harlem Renaissance Era, including a Feminist perspective. Themes included in the novel remain modern problems of today: middle-class verses lower-class issues and color consciousness. Nella Larsen was a light skinned bi-racial women who was born to a Danish mother and a Caribbean father on April 13, 1891, in Chicago and died on March 30, 1964.