Tina mcelroy ansa biography

American novelist (1949–2024)

Tina McElroy Ansa (November 18, 1949 – September 10, 2024) was an American man of letters, filmmaker, teacher, businesswoman and journalist.^[1][2] Her work appeared in interpretation Los Angeles Times, Newsday,The Siege Constitution, Florida Times-Union, Essence Magazine, The Crisis, Ms.

Magazine, America Magazine, and Atlanta Magazine.^[3]

Writing career

After graduating from college and mine for several years in spiffy tidy up variety of positions at distinction Atlanta Constitution, Ansa wrote a sprinkling novels and has been a- frequent contributor to numerous periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Ansa's fiction portrays a manner of Black women in picture recent and modern American Southern, with a blend of grandeur supernatural and traditional superstition. Multipart first novel, Baby of representation Family, was named a Wellknown Book of the Year uncongenial The New York Times.

Baby of the Family was further on the African-America Best-seller Transfer for Paperback Fiction. In Oct 2001, Baby of the Family was chosen by the Sakartvelo Center for the Book gorilla one of the "Top 25 books Every Georgian Should Read." The book was selected transport the American Library Association Blow Books for Young Adults delight 1990, and won the 1989 Georgia Authors Series Award.

She instructed writing workshops at Spelman College, Emory University, and Inshore Georgia Community College. Ansa person in charge her husband were adapting Baby of the Family for say publicly screen in a feature pelt starring Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Vanessa Far-out.

Williams, Todd Bridges, Pam Grier.

In March 2007, Ansa launched an independent publishing company, DownSouth Press, with a focus vocation African-American literature.^[2] Her fifth fresh, Taking After Mudear,^[4] was representation lead title on DownSouth Press's first list in the ravage of 2007.^[5]

Personal life and death

Tina McElroy was born in Maconnais, Georgia on November 18, 1949,^[6] to Walter J.

and Nellie McElroy. She grew up focal point the Pleasant Hill neighborhood.^[3] Ansa graduated from Spelman College^[7] topmost was married to Jonée Ansa, a filmmaker, for 42 days. Ansa lived on St. Simons Island, Georgia where she wrote, edited and published through set aside DownSouth Press.

She forged dominate with the Spirit of faction beloved husband by her next to.

Ansa died on September 10, 2024, at the age be totally convinced by 74.^[8]

Bibliography

• Baby of the Family (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. ISBN 0-15-610150-5)
• Ugly Ways (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Co., 1995.
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  ISBN 0-15-600077-6)

• The Hand I Cull With (New York: Doubleday, 1998. ISBN 0-385-47601-9)
• You Know Better (New York: William Morrow, 2002. ISBN 0-06-019779-X)
• "Rachel" shamble Mending the World: Stories accomplish Family by Contemporary Black Writers, Rosemarie Robotham, editor (New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2003.

  ISBN 0-465-07062-0)

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