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Sandra Seaton
April 19, 2002
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Sandra
Seaton’s work, From The Diary of Sally Hemings, is a
collaboration with composer William Bolcom, who set Seaton’s
text to music. A song cycle, the work recreates the thoughts
and feelings of Sally Hemings throughout her long relationship
with Thomas Jefferson by means of fictional diary entries.
The Bridge Party, for which Seaton won a Theodore Ward Prize
for New African American Playwrights, was chosen for inclusion
in Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women, edited
by Judy Stephens and Kathy Perkins.
A Professor of English at Central Michigan University in
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, Sandra Seaton teaches courses in
playwriting, fiction writing, and African American Literature.
Her scholarly work, which has been microfilmed by the Tennessee
State Archives, focuses on research about African American
communities in the South from colonial times through the
era of segregation.
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Sandra Cecelia Seaton
was born in Columbia, Tennessee. The stories of her grandmother
and her mother remain an important influence on her writing.
Seaton's grandmother instilled in her granddaughter a great pride
in the work of their relative Flournoy Miller, who wrote the
book and starred in Shuffle Along, a musical that many believe
inaugurated the Harlem Renaissance. She received her B.A. from
the University of Illinois. She earned her M.A. in Creative Writing
at Michigan State University.
For more information on Sandra Seaton, please visit her website:
http://www.grad.cmich.edu/seaton/default.htm
To view Special Collections' holdings of Seaton's work, please
click here.
To hear Seaton read from her own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library, here.
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March 2, 2007
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