Anderson Ferrell is an American novelist. He was the winner of a 1996 Whiting Award for his novel Home for a Day."Ten Chosen to Receive Whiting Writers' Prizes". The New York Times, October 30, 1996
He is originally from Wilson County, North Carolina.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.
Works
Home for the Day Knopf, 1994
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.
References
Awards Profile at The Whiting Foundation