Mignon Holland Anderson
Mignon Holland Anderson (born 1945), is an American writer. She was born in Cheriton, Virginia.[1][2] Her parents, Frank and Ruby Holland, owned a funeral home.[2] Anderson writes mainly short stories that focus on African American life on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore. She received her B.A. from Fisk University in 1966 and graduated from Columbia University with an M.F.A.
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. [from Wikipedia]
Her short story collection, Mostly Womenfolk and a Man or Two, was published in 1976 by Chicago’s Third World Press.
She lived in Arlington for awhile before moving to Dumfries.
She once served as research assistant to Arna Bontemps.
1976
2001
“The book is set on the lower Eastern Shore of Virginia in the late 50s. When word comes to Turner and Stella Allen that Shorty King has been found dead in his house, they breathe a sigh of relief, certain that they and their family, particularly their eleven-year-old daughter, Carrie, are finally free of the ongoing trauma that this racist man has inflicted upon them over the past year. But they don’t know the whole story.”
[from Amazon]
She has completed a novel, “The Summer Calling,” which is now in the hands of her agent, awaiting a publisher.
Works
“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.
- The End of Dying. Baltimore: American House (2001).
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