Jill Nelson is a prominent African-American journalist and novelist. She has written several books, including the autobiographical Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, which won an American Book Award. She was professor of journalism at the City College of New York from 1998 to 2003.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Jill Nelson
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992, 1994, 2002
Studios
Calderwood
Jill Nelson worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…