ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Melissa Fay Greene has published six books of nonfiction: Praying for Sheetrock (1991), The Temple Bombing (1996), Last Man Out (2003), There is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Save her Country’s Children (2006), No Biking in the House Without A Helmet (2011), and The Underdogs (2016).
Melissa’s work has been translated into 12 languages and has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015-2016) , two National Book Award nominations, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award, a Lyndhurst Foundation Fellowship, the Georgia Author Award, an honorary doctorate of letters from Emory University , induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Arts & Humanities. She has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Newsweek, LIFE, Mother Jones, and other periodicals, Sheetrock was named one of the Top 100 Works of American Journalism of the 20th Century |
and appeared on Entertainment Weekly’s list of “The New Classics—The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years.”Melissa is the Kirk Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Agnes Scott College and a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the Grady College of Journalism of the University of Georgia, where she teaches in the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program.
A native of Macon, Georgia, and 1975 graduate of Oberlin College, Melissa and her husband, prominent criminal defense attorney Don Samuel, live in Atlanta and are the parents of nine, the parents-in-law of five, and the grandparents of five. |