Introduction

1. Nellie Walker

2. Inheriting the Color Line, 1892-1898

3. State Street Years, 1899-1907

4. Turning South: Nashville and Fisk, 1907-1908

5. Coming of Age in Copenhagen, 1908-1912

6. A Black Woman in White, 1912-1915

7. Rebel with a Cause: Tuskegee, 1915-1916

8. A Nurse in the Bronx, 1916-1919

9. Sojourner in Harlem: the Dawn of the "Renaissance," 1919-1921

10. Rooms Full of Children: Seward Park and harlem, 1923-1924

11. High Bohemia, 1925

12. New Negro, Model 1926

13. Quicksand

14. In the Mecca, 1927

15. Year of Arrival, 1928 16. Passing

17. A Star in Harlem, 1929

18. Trouble in Mind, 1930

19. A Novelist on Her Own, 1930-1932

20. The Crack-Ip, 1932-1933

21. Letting Go, 1933-1937

22. The Recluse on Second Avenue, 1938-1944

23. Nella Larsen Imes, R.N.

Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index