Sandra Seaton received the Mark Twain Award from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature in 2012.
12 Facts About Sandra Seaton
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Sandra Seaton was born in Columbia, Tennessee, to Albert Sampson Browne Jr.
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Sandra Seaton graduated from Farragut High School in Chicago and received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Arts and Letters.
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Sandra Seaton earned a Master of Arts degree in creative writing from Michigan State University, where she studied under Linda Wagner-Martin and Robert Martin.
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Sandra Seaton married James Seaton, literary critic and professor of English at Michigan State University; the couple has four children.
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Sandra Seaton is the author of 14 plays, opera librettos, a spoken-word piece, and short fiction.
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Sandra Seaton wrote the libretto for the solo opera From the Diary of Sally Hemings for the composer William Bolcom.
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Bolcom asked Sandra Seaton to create "diary" entries that would provide the text for his song cycle From The Diary of Sally Hemings.
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Sandra Seaton spent more than a year doing research to create a "diary" that would be historically plausible.
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Sandra Seaton has continued to explore the relationship between Sally Hemings and the third president in two plays, Sally, a solo play, and A Bed Made in Heaven, a multi-character play.
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Sandra Seaton is the author of "Betty Price and George Nelson, Spreading the News about Modern Design", which appeared in Modernism magazine.
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Sandra Seaton taught creative writing and African-American literature at Central Michigan University for 15 years as a professor of English.