Wadley, Ted
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Encyclopedia article about Tina McElroy Ansa. Novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story writer Tina McElroy Ansa was born in Macon on November 18, 1949. Macon and its historic African American Pleasant Hill district serve as a model for the fictional town of Mulberry, the setting of her first four novels. After graduating from Spelman College in Atlanta in 1971, Ansa began work as editor and writer for the Atlanta Constitution and later the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Since 1982 she has been a freelance writer with work appearing in magazines, newspapers, short-story collections, and nonfiction anthologies. She also contributed the essays "Postcards from Georgia" to the television series CBS News Sunday Morning and has taught writing workshops at Spelman, Brunswick College, and Emory University.
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