Dorinda "Dori" Sanders (born 1934,[1] York County, South Carolina) is an African-American novelist, food writer and farmer.[2] Her first novel, Clover (1990), was a bestseller, and won a 1990 Lillian Smith Book Award. She has also written a cookbook, Dori Sanders' Country Cooking, that mixes recipes and anecdotes.
Dori Sanders | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dorinda Sanders 1934 (age 89–90) Filbert, South Carolina |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Fiction, memoir |
| Notable works | Clover (1990) |
The eighth of 10 children, Sanders is a fourth-generation farmer. She cultivates peaches and vegetables with her brother, on Sanders Peach Farm and Roadside Market, located in Filbert, South Carolina.[3][4] In the video created to celebrate her 2011 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Sanders tells how her father, a rural school teacher, purchased the land in approximately 1915 and began successfully cultivating peaches in the early 1920s.[5]
Works
edit- Clover: A Novel, 1990
- Her Own Place: A Novel, 1993
- Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: recipes and stories from the family farm stand, 1995
- Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers, 2004
References
edit- ^ "Dori Sanders". Oxford Reference. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
- ^ Golden, Susan L. (2006). "Sanders, Dori (1935?- )". In Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (ed.). Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 768–9. ISBN 0-313-33197-9.
- ^ "Sanders Peach Farm & Roadside Market". discoversouthcarolina.com. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ^ "South Carolina's favorite fruit arrives early, stays late through summer". Post and Courier. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ^ "Meet Dori Sanders". Southern Foodways Alliance. October 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
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