Dorinda "Dori" Sanders (born 1934,

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) is an African-American novelist,

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and farmer. Her first novel, ''Clover'' (1990), was a

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, and won a 1990

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. 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. In the video created to celebrate her 2011

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Lifetime Achievement Award from the

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, Sanders tells how her father, a rural school teacher, purchased the land in approximately 1915 and began successfully cultivating peaches in the early 1920s.

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

External links

Sanders' website
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