Anita Doreen Diggs
Encyclopedia
Anita Doreen Diggs is an American
editor
, novel
ist, and lecturer
.
Diggs grew up in New York City
where she attended public schools in the Hell's Kitchen
section of Manhattan
.
She later worked as a senior editor at Random House
until 2002 and was a senior editor at Thunder's Mouth Press.
Diggs is the author of four novels:
She has written books on career advice and resources for African-Americans. She is also a writing mentor with the Creative Nonfiction
mentoring program.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
, novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist, and lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer is an academic rank. In the United Kingdom, lecturer is a position at a university or similar institution, often held by academics in their early career stages, who lead research groups and supervise research students, as well as teach...
.
Diggs grew up in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
where she attended public schools in the Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City between 34th Street and 59th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River....
section of Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
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She later worked as a senior editor at Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
until 2002 and was a senior editor at Thunder's Mouth Press.
Diggs is the author of four novels:
- A Mighty Love (2003)
- A Meeting in the Ladies Room (2004)
- The Other Side of the Game (2005)
- Denzel’s Lips (2006)
She has written books on career advice and resources for African-Americans. She is also a writing mentor with the Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction (magazine)
Creative Nonfiction is a literary magazine based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The journal was founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993 making it the first literary magazine to publish, exclusively and on a regular basis, high quality nonfiction prose...
mentoring program.