Anderson Ferrell
{{short description|American novelist}}
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|awards=Whiting Award (1996)
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Anderson Ferrell is an American novelist. He was the winner of a 1996 Whiting Award for his novel Home for a Day.[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/30/books/ten-chosen-to-receive-whiting-writers-prizes.html "Ten Chosen to Receive Whiting Writers' Prizes"]. The New York Times, October 30, 1996
He is originally from Wilson County, North Carolina.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.
Works
- {{cite book| title=Where She Was| url=https://archive.org/details/whereshewasanove00ferr| url-access=registration| publisher=Knopf| year= 1985| isbn= 978-0-394-53521-0 }}
- Home for the Day Knopf, 1994 {{cite book| title=reprint| publisher=Alyson Books| year= 1997| isbn=978-1-55583-429-6 }}
- {{cite book| title=Have You Heard| publisher=Bloomsbury| year=2004| isbn=978-1-58234-189-7| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/haveyouheard00ande_0}}
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.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/armed-and-fabulous.html?pagewanted=2| title=Armed and Fabulous| author=Miles, Jonathan |authorlink=Jonathan Miles (novelist)| date=April 25, 2004| work=The New York Times|accessdate=22 December 2011}}
References
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Awards
- [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/anderson-ferrell#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
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Category:American LGBTQ novelists
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Category:Novelists from North Carolina
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