In a professional writing career that spans almost a decade, Anita Doreen Diggs has distinguished herself as a novelist and author of nonfiction. Her fiction includes the novels A MEETING IN THE LADIES ROOM and A MIGHTY LOVE. In the genre of nonfiction, Anita Doreen Diggs has written SUCCESS AT WORK: A GUIDE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, TALKING DRUMS: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN QUOTE COLLECTION, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCE GUIDE, BARRIER BREAKING RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS and the highly acclaimed STAYING MARRIED: A GUIDE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN COUPLES.
As a book editor, Anita Doreen Diggs has held appointments at Random House, where she served as Senior Editor - bringing them such authors as Judge Greg Mathis, American Book Award winner Elizabeth Nunez and NAACP Image Award nominee Ilyasah Shabazz and Time Warner Trade Publishing where she acquired books by comedian Steve Harvey, entrepreneur Terrie Williams, and novelist John Ridley. Before becoming a book editor, she was a publicist at Penguin Books USA for many years.
Anita Doreen Diggs has lectured on the topics of novel writing, book proposal development, how to get a literary agent, how to get a job in the book publishing industry and the past, present and future of African American literature. She has been interviewed by the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Daily News and C-Span.
Columbia Journalism Review placed Ms. Diggs on their “The Shapers” list for the year 2000. The Shapers is a list of prominent New Yorkers who shape the national media agenda. She lives in Harlem. |
