Anderson Ferrell Explained

Anderson Ferrell
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	American
Awards:	Whiting Award (1996)

Anderson Ferrell is an American novelist. He was the winner of a 1996 Whiting Award for his novel Home for a Day.^[1]

He is originally from Wilson County, North Carolina.^[2]

Works

• Book: Where She Was. registration. Knopf. 1985. 978-0-394-53521-0 .
• Home for the Day Knopf, 1994 Book: reprint. Alyson Books. 1997. 978-1-55583-429-6 .
• Book: Have You Heard. Bloomsbury. 2004. 978-1-58234-189-7. registration.

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]

Awards

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/30/books/ten-chosen-to-receive-whiting-writers-prizes.html "Ten Chosen to Receive Whiting Writers' Prizes"
2. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda Hardwick Mackethan, The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Scholarly Book Services, 2002. . p. 568.
3. News: Armed and Fabulous. Miles, Jonathan . Jonathan Miles (novelist). April 25, 2004. The New York Times. 22 December 2011.