Tina McElroy Ansa, 14th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Document Type

Featured Participant

Festival Date

10-9-1991

Location

Webb University Center

Author/Artist Bio

Tina McElroy Ansa's first novel Baby of the Family was honored as one of the New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of the Year. The book received the Georgia Authors' Series Award and was named by the American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults for 1990. McElroy Ansa has written reviews and articles for the Atlanta Constitution, The Charlotte Observer, and other publications. Tina McElroy Ansa has taught at Spelman College (her alma mater), Clark College, Brunswick College, and Emory University. She has also published non-fiction in Atlanta Magazine, American Magazine, and Ms. magazine, among others.

On St. Simons Island, Georgia, where she resides, Ansa was the director of the Georgia Sea Island Festival, a 13 year-old grassroots festival that seeks to preserve the crafts, music, slave chants, games, food, and spirit of the African-American people who lived and worked as slaves on the rice and cotton plantations along the Georgia coast.

Description

McElroy Ansa performed a reading from her novel-in-progress on Wednesday, October 9th, 1991 at 11:00 a.m. and spoke about the art of writing fiction at 1:00 p.m. in Webb University Center.

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