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Cecil Dawkins is a North American author primarily of fiction.
She was born in 1927 in Birmingham, Alabama, where she grew to adulthood. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a B.A. in English in 1949, she studied at Stanford University, where she earned her M.A. degree in English Literature in 1953. Her second year at Stanford she was awarded the Stanford University Creative Writing Fellowship, 1952-1953.
She has held the following academic positions:
Writer in Residence, Stephens College, 1973-1979.
Guest faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, 1979-1981.
Distinguished Visiting Writer, University of Hawaii, 1991.
Calloway/O'Conner Chair Professor, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA, 1996-1997.
The Quiet Enemy, a collection of Dawkins' short stories, was published by Athenaeum in 1963 and was concurrently published by Andre Deutsch in London. One story in that collection appeared in a Martha Foley Best American Short Stories of 1963 collection and also won an award in Southwest Review and the John H. McGinnis Award for the Best Story in Two Years. Individual stories from this collection had first appeared in the Paris Review, the Georgia Review, and the Sewanee Review. The Quiet Enemy was reissued in the Penguin Contemporary American Fiction series, and again, in 1996, by the Georgia University Press.
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