My Story
Anne Hardin is a former music educator with more than thirty years of service in the profession. She attended Georgia State University (BM, 1976), the University of South Carolina as a teaching fellow (MMuEd/trumpet performance certificate; received the AMOCO Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,1978), and completed her Ph.D. (MuEd, 1990), also at the University of South Carolina.
She was a middle school band director for twenty-eight years, is a three-time site Teacher of the Year and the 2002 Beaufort County (SC) Teacher of the Year. She commissioned fourteen composers during that time, and one work by Robert Sheldon was dedicated to Bradbury and Hardin, based on a short story and titled There Will Come Soft Rains. Hardin is a former Editor of the International Trumpet Guild Journal, a position she held for eighteen years (1978-96). She was the recipient of the ITG Award of Merit in 2006. She is the author of several instruction music workbooks. She co-authored Inside John Haynie’s Studio: A Master Teacher’s Lessons on Trumpet and Life (UNT Press, 2007). She has edited several books in the area of science fiction, including Rainbow Fantasia, Martianthology (both with Forrest J Ackerman), and the omnibus volume of two books by Carl L. Biemiller — The Magic Ball from Mars and Starboy, published by Sense of Wonder Press. Hardin compiled and submitted the successful portfolio nomination that resulted in the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation to Ray Bradbury in 2007.
What Readers are Saying
"Years ago, I was invited to write a letter recommending Ray Bradbury for a special Pulitzer Prize. Anne Farr Hardin helped organize that successful effort, largely out of her affection and admiration for the author who gave us “Fahrenheit 451,” “The Martian Chronicles,” “Dandelion Wine” and “Something Wicked This Way Comes” (all, by the way, available in a new Library of America volume edited by our leading Bradbury scholar, Jonathan Eller). Hardin’s own fabulous Bradbury collection — now housed at the University of South Carolina and the basis for this annotated catalogue — features warmly inscribed books, personal letters, rare pulp magazines, manuscripts, photographs, poems, Christmas greetings and all kinds of memorabilia, even Bradbury’s famous bicycle, now painstakingly restored."
MICHAEL DIRDA
Washington Post
December 8, 2021
