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Dori Sanders
BornDorinda Sanders
1934 (age 89–90)
Filbert, South Carolina
OccupationAuthor
GenreFiction, memoir
Notable worksClover (1990)

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.

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

  • 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

  1. ^ "Dori Sanders". Oxford Reference. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Sanders Peach Farm & Roadside Market". discoversouthcarolina.com. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  4. ^ "South Carolina's favorite fruit arrives early, stays late through summer". Post and Courier. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  5. ^ "Meet Dori Sanders". Southern Foodways Alliance. October 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2016.

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