Anderson Ferrell

Anderson Ferrell
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Notable awardsWhiting Award (1996)

Anderson Ferrell is an American novelist. He was the winner of a 1996 Whiting Award for his novel Home for a Day.[1]

He is originally from Wilson County, North Carolina.[2]

Works

  • Where She Was. Knopf. 1985. ISBN 978-0-394-53521-0.
  • Home for the Day Knopf, 1994 reprint. Alyson Books. 1997. ISBN 978-1-55583-429-6.
  • Have You Heard. Bloomsbury. 2004. ISBN 978-1-58234-189-7.

Reviews

...Ferrell's mismanaged plot device fails to spoil his novel. His melodious backtracking and sweet-tea atmospherics, along with his catty eye for small-town social distinctions and his keen ear for fence-line gossip, imbue much of Have You Heard with a juicy charm. Like the world at large, though, it would be far better off without gay-baiting politicians and town-square gunfire.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Ten Chosen to Receive Whiting Writers' Prizes". The New York Times, October 30, 1996
  2. ^ Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda Hardwick Mackethan, The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Scholarly Book Services, 2002. ISBN 978-0807126929. p. 568.
  3. ^ Miles, Jonathan (April 25, 2004). "Armed and Fabulous". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 December 2011.

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