Anita Doreen Diggs

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Anita Doreen Diggs (b. 1960) is an editor, novelist, and lecturer.

Diggs grew up in New York City where she attended public schools in the Hells Kitchen section of Manhattan.

She later worked as a Senior Editor at Random House where she edited such notable books as:

Growing Up X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Inner City Miracle by Judge Greg Mathis
Bill Clinton and Black America by DeWayne Wickham
Freedom in the Family by Tannarive and Patricia Due
Yet a Stranger: Why Black American’s Still Don’t Feel at Home by Deborah Mathis
The Best of Emerge Magazine by George Curry
Back In The Day: My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur by Darrin Bastfield
Discretion by Elizabeth Nunez
Grace by Elizabeth Nunez
Satisfy My Soul by Colin Channer

As Senior Editor of Thunder's Mouth Press she edited:

Billy Joel: The Biography by Mark Bego
Safe Trip To Eden: A Guide to Greening Your Patriotism by David Steinman
The Label: A Biography of Columbia Records by Gary Marmorstein
The Kennedy Family Album: Personal Photos of America’s First Family by Linda Corley with Forward by Senator Edward Kennedy
Dr. Dre: The Biography by Ronin Ro
Long Road Outta Compton by Verna Griffin
The Message by Felicia Pride
We Gotta Have It by Esther Iverem
Money Shot by Lawrence Ross
Reese Witherspoon: The Biography by Lauren Brown
The Devil & Dave Chapelle by Professor William Jelani Cobb
When Rap Music Had a Conscience by Tayannah Lee McQuillar
The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2 by Jane Poynter
Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality by Ronald L. Mallett