# Dori Sanders

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{{short description|American novelist}}
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'''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](/source/York_County%2C_South_Carolina)) is an African-American novelist, [food writer](/source/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](/source/bestseller), and won a 1990 [Lillian Smith Book Award](/source/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](/source/Filbert%2C_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](/source/Craig_Claiborne) Lifetime Achievement Award from the [Southern Foodways Alliance](/source/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

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

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Category:20th-century American farmers

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