Dori Sanders

{{short description|American novelist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Dori Sanders | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Dorinda Sanders | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1934}} | birth_place = Filbert, South Carolina | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Author | language = | nationality =  | citizenship =  | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Fiction, memoir | subject =  | movement = | notable_works = ''Clover'' (1990) | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website =  | portaldisp =  }}

'''Dorinda "Dori" Sanders''' (born 1934,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100440166 |title=Dori Sanders |publisher=Oxford Reference |access-date=2020-12-14}}</ref> York County, South Carolina) is an African-American novelist, food writer and farmer.<ref name="Beaulieu">{{cite book|contribution=Sanders, Dori (1935?- )|first=Susan L.|last=Golden|editor=Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu|title=Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Press|place=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=0-313-33197-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/writingafricanam0000unse/page/768 768–9]|url=https://archive.org/details/writingafricanam0000unse/page/768}}</ref> Her first novel, ''Clover'' (1990), was a bestseller, and won a 1990 Lillian Smith Book Award. She has also written a cookbook, ''Dori Sanders' Country Cooking'', that mixes recipes and anecdotes.

The eighth of 10 children, Sanders is a fourth-generation farmer. She cultivates peaches and vegetables with her brother, on Sanders Peach Farm and Roadside Market, located in Filbert, South Carolina.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://discoversouthcarolina.com/products/3736|title=Sanders Peach Farm & Roadside Market|website=discoversouthcarolina.com|access-date=2016-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150617/PC1206/150619506/1481/peach-party-south-carolinas-favorite-fruit-arrives-early-and-stays-late|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150905054319/http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150617/PC1206/150619506/1481/peach-party-south-carolinas-favorite-fruit-arrives-early-and-stays-late|url-status = dead|archive-date = September 5, 2015|title = South Carolina's favorite fruit arrives early, stays late through summer|website = Post and Courier|access-date = 2016-04-17}}</ref> In the video created to celebrate her 2011 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Sanders tells how her father, a rural school teacher, purchased the land in approximately 1915 and began successfully cultivating peaches in the early 1920s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.southernfoodways.org/film/dori/|title=Meet Dori Sanders|website=Southern Foodways Alliance|date=October 2011 |language=en-us|access-date=2016-04-17}}</ref>

==Works== *''Clover: A Novel'', 1990 *''Her Own Place: A Novel'', 1993 *''Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: recipes and stories from the family farm stand'', 1995 *''Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers'', 2004

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==External links== * [http://www.dorisanders.com/ Sanders' website]

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