Ann Fox Chandonnet Explained

Ann Fox Chandonnet
Birth Name:Ann Alicia Fox
Birth Date:7 February 1943
Birth Place:Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education:Dracut High School
Lowell State College (BS)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA)
Children:2
Parents:Leighton Dinsmore Fox
Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran

Ann Fox Chandonnet, born Ann Alicia Fox, is an American poet, journalist, book reviewer, and culinary historian.[1]

Biography

Ann Alicia Fox was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on February 7, 1943[2] [3] [4] [5] to Leighton Dinsmore Fox and Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran.[6] She grew up on a dairy farm in Dracut, Massachusetts[7] [8] and she graduated from Dracut High School, magna cum laude from Lowell State College in 1964 with a B.S. in Secondary Education and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965 with an M.A. in English Literature.[9] [10] She married Fernand “Fern” Leonce Chandonnet in 1966[11] and they have two sons, Yves and Alexandre. She has lived in Chugiak, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Vale, North Carolina,[12] and O'Fallon, Missouri.[13]

Her poems have appeared in anthologies and various magazines, including Permafrost, Ice Floe, Abraxas, New Kauri, MidAtlantic and Calapooya Collage. Her articles on food history have appeared in Early American Life magazine.[14] She also had a food column in Alaska magazine.[15]

Chandonnet worked as a reporter for the now-defunct the Anchorage Times newspaper from 1982 to 1992 and the Juneau Empire from 1999 to 2002.[16] [17] [18] She taught English at Kodiak High School in Alaska from 1965 to 1966 and also taught at Lowell State College in Massachusetts from 1966 to 1969. For five years she was a publicist for a small publishing office in Anchorage.

From the cover to her book "Colonial Food": "Ann Chandonnet is a food historian, poet and journalist. She is a member of the Culinary Historians of Washington, D.C., and is the author of the award-winning "Gold Rush Grub" and "The Pioneer Village Cookbook." Chandonnet started cooking when she was 11 or 12 years old and was making meals for the family. In high school, she entered her jams and canned foods to the state fair.[19]

Selected works

Poetry
Fiction
Non-fiction
Anthologies

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ann Chandonnet » 2Leaf Press. 2Leaf Press. 12 April 2017. en-US. 2020-03-06.
  2. Web site: Ann Chandonnet papers. Archives and Special Collections. en-US. 2020-02-29.
  3. Web site: Interviews. JOHN MORGAN, POET. en. 2020-02-29.
  4. Web site: Introducing Ann Chandonnet, our September Featured Author. 2009-09-02. 49 Writers, Inc.. en-US. 2020-02-29.
  5. Web site: Ann Chandonnet. Poets & Writers. en. 2020-02-29.
  6. News: CurrentObituary.com. Barbara A. Curran - Obituary - Tewksbury, MA / Chelmsford, MA - Tewksbury Funeral Home CurrentObituary.com. 2020-02-29. en.
  7. Book: Chandonnet, Ann.. Canoeing in the rain : poems for my Aleut-Athabascan son. 1990. Published for Mr. Cogito Press by Meredith L. Bliss. 0-932191-10-X. Forest Grove, Or.. 24659145.
  8. Book: Chanodonnet, Ann Fox. At the fruit-tree's mossy root. [publisher not identified]. 1984. [United States]. 56.
  9. Web site: EAnnotations: Fall 2008 - Alumni Bookshelf . 2009-10-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609235501/http://www.english.wisc.edu/eAnnotations/Fall08/AlumniBookshelf.html . 2010-06-09 . dead .
  10. News: Leney. Ann. Dracut Girl Teaching At Kodiak Island HS. 1966-03-06. Lowell Sun. 2020-03-06.
  11. Book: Chandonnet, Ann. Pevear, Roberta Gibson.. Write quick : war and a woman's life in letters, 1835-1867. 2010. Winoca Press. 978-0-9789736-9-8. 1034975276.
  12. Web site: Musings: Ann Chandonnet, September 25, 2008 . 2 February 2009 .
  13. Web site: Ann Chandonnet . The Alaska Writers Directory.
  14. Web site: Ann Chandonnet . 2020-03-06 . www.press.uchicago.edu.
  15. Web site: McRoy & Blackburn, Publishers . 2020-03-06 . www.alaskafiction.com.
  16. Web site: Ann Chandonnet: From Alaska To Vale - Lincoln Herald . 2020-02-29 . lincolnherald.net.
  17. Web site: journal_admin . 2001-12-09 . Movers & Shakers December 9, 2001 . 2020-02-29 . Alaska Journal . en.
  18. Web site: Ann Chandonnet – Sisters in Crime Greater St. Louis Chapter . 2020-02-29 . en-US.
  19. News: Reed . Elaine . 1972-10-23 . The Teacher Cooked Her Apples . Oakland Tribune . 2020-03-06.

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