Dorinda "Dori" Sanders (born 1934,[1] York County, South Carolina) is an African-American novelist, food writer and farmer.
[2] Her first novel, Clover (1990), was a bestseller, and won a 1990 Lillian Smith Book Award.
She has also written a cookbook, Dori Sanders' Country Cooking, that mixes recipes and anecdotes.
[3][4] In the video created to celebrate her 2011 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Sanders tells how her father, a rural school teacher, purchased the land in approximately 1915 and began successfully cultivating peaches in the early 1920s.
[5] This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1930s is a stub.