Mignon Holland Anderson

Mignon Holland Anderson (born 1945) is an American writer and professor.[1][2] She writes mainly short stories that focus on African-American life in the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Mignon Holland Anderson
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Writer
Professor
Academic background
Alma materFisk University
Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland Eastern Shore

Personal life

Mignon Holland Anderson was born in Cheriton, Virginia.[3][4] Her parents, Frank and Ruby Holland, owned a funeral home.[4] She attended Fisk University and received her Bachelor of Arts in 1966. In 1970 she graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts. She once served as research assistant to Arna Bontemps.[5]

Career

Anderson writes short stories. Many of her stories take place in the Eastern Shore of Virginia and focus on the lives of African Americans. Her story Mostly Womenfolk and a Man or Two, takes place after the end of slavery in the United States and focuses on how African-American people started appropriating white culture. Her other story, The End of Dying, was published in 2001 and also focuses on racism in the mid-20th century.[3][6]

Anderson teaches English at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, a historically black college.[3][4]

Anderson has been the recipient of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore President's Teacher of the Year award. She has also been named one of the President's Top Ten Teachers of the Year. She has been the associate editor for the Maryland Review.[4]

Works
  • The End of Dying. Baltimore: American House (2001).
  • "In the Face of Fire I Will Not Turn Back." Negro Digest: 17 (1968), pp. 20–23.
  • Mostly Womenfolk and a Man or Two: A Collection. Chicago: Third World Press (1976). ISBN 0-88378-075-5.

References
  1. "Mignon Holland Anderson". literarydc. 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  2. "M Anderson - Professor Profile". University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  3. Yolanda Williams Page (30 January 2007). Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0-313-33429-0. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  4. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (2006). Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-0-313-33197-8. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  5. Black World/Negro Digest. Johnson Publishing Company. September 1973. p. 92. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  6. Anderson, Mignon Holland (June 2001). End of Dying. America Star Books. ISBN 978-1-58851-019-8.
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