# Anderson Ferrell

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**Anderson Ferrell** is an [American](/source/Americans) [novelist](/source/Novelist). He was the winner of a 1996 [Whiting Award](/source/Whiting_Awards) for his novel *Home for a Day*.[1]

He is originally from [Wilson County](/source/Wilson_County,_North_Carolina), [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina).[2]

## Works

- [*Where She Was*](https://archive.org/details/whereshewasanove00ferr). 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*](https://archive.org/details/haveyouheard00ande_0). 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"](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/30/books/ten-chosen-to-receive-whiting-writers-prizes.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*, October 30, 1996

1. 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.

1. Miles, Jonathan (April 25, 2004). ["Armed and Fabulous"](https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/armed-and-fabulous.html?pagewanted=2). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. Retrieved 22 December 2011.

## Awards

- [Profile at The Whiting Foundation](http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/anderson-ferrell#/)

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