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.
Jill Nelson
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Based in New York, NY
Residencies: 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. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…