Dori Sanders
American novelist
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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.
1934 (age 91–92)
Dori Sanders | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dorinda Sanders 1934 (age 91–92) |
| 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
- 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
