A review by mimosaeyes
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line by George Hutchinson

5.0

I feel as though I knew Larsen. I actually started crying when I got to the coda at the end of the last chapter, as if I'd experienced the loss of her myself. Hutchinson writes objectively, but with a warmth and sympathy and intelligence that I think Larsen would have appreciated.

A great work of scholarship, and like the best biographies, evokes what was most human and irreducible about its subject.