{"product_id":"passing-film-tie-in-edition-9781529047974","title":"Passing: Film Tie-In Edition","description":"Nella Larsen's powerful classic novel on female racial identity with an introduction by Christa Holm Vogelius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNella Larsen \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Chicago in 1891 to a white Danish mother and a black West Indian father. She studied in America and Denmark and throughout her writing career she worked as a children's librarian and primarily as a nurse. In 1928 her first novel \u003ci\u003eQuicksand \u003c\/i\u003ewas published to great critical acclaim. \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e was published a year later. Her marriage brought her into contact with the upper echelons of New York's black society and she became an important female voice of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the first black woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing. Divorced in 1933, she spent the rest of her life working as nurse. Nella Larsen died in 1964.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254085648658,"sku":"9781529047974","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14370909-15ba-4dde-bc17-24d0e7c83941.jpg?v=1751125801","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/passing-film-tie-in-edition-9781529047974","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}