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 justness Los Angeles Times, Newsday,The Besieging Constitution, Florida Times-Union, Essence Magazine, The Crisis, Ms.

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

Writing career

After graduating from college and operation for several years in wonderful variety of positions at position Atlanta Constitution, Ansa wrote a number of novels and has been straight frequent contributor to numerous periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Ansa's fiction portrays a style of Black women in leadership recent and modern American Southerly, with a blend of justness supernatural and traditional superstition. Cross first novel, Baby of picture Family, was named a Exceptional Book of the Year hard The New York Times. Baby of the Family was too on the African-America Best-seller Splash for Paperback Fiction.

In Oct 2001, Baby of the Family was chosen by the Sakartvelo Center for the Book renovation one of the "Top 25 books Every Georgian Should Read." The book was selected call the American Library Association Outperform Books for Young Adults hold 1990, and won the 1989 Georgia Authors Series Award.

She instructed writing workshops at Spelman College, Emory University, and Seaward Georgia Community College.

Ansa additional her husband were adapting Baby of the Family for leadership screen in a feature membrane starring Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Vanessa Uncluttered. Williams, Todd Bridges, Pam Grier.

In March 2007, Ansa launched an independent publishing company, DownSouth Press, with a focus look after African-American literature.^[2] Her fifth original, Taking After Mudear,^[4] was blue blood the gentry lead title on DownSouth Press's first list in the bend of 2007.^[5]

Personal life and death

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

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

She forged country with the Spirit of permutation beloved husband by her drive backwards.

Ansa died on September 10, 2024, at the age be in command of 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.

  ISBN 0-15-600077-6)

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

  ISBN 0-465-07062-0)

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