Neely Tucker
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Lexington,MS, The United StatesWebsite
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Genre
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Influences
William Faulkner, Elmore Leonard, Toni Morrison,Richard Price, StephenWilliam Faulkner, Elmore Leonard, Toni Morrison,Richard Price, Stephen King, Dennis Lehane,Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Michael Connelly, Ann Patchettmore
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The third novel in the Sully Carter series, "Only the Hunted Run," publishes on Aug. 30, from Viking. Publishers Weekly, the first to file a review, dubs it "provocativea terrifying thriller."
Sully, one of the few reporters stuck in Washington in the August doldrums in the summer of , is filling in for a colleague when shooting breaks out in the Capitol building. The killer, Terry Waters, kills a congressman from Oklahoma by stabbing him through the eyes with a pair of ice picks. He also manages to escape.
Sully, the only surviving witness, soon finds himself being tracked down by Waters. This pursuit eventually leads both men to St. Elizabeths, the gothic mental hospital in Southeast D.C, which scars everyone it touches -- if it doesTh
Based abroad for seven years, he has worked in more than 50 countries or territories on four continents. He covered violent conflicts in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for years before falling in love with a terribly ill infant who had been left to die on the day she was born in AIDS-devastated Zimbabwe.
Today, that child is named Chipo Katherine Tucker. An effervescent seven-year- old, she is the Tucker’s only child.
Tucker was born in rural Mississippi at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement in the poorest, most predominantly black county in the poorest, most predominantly black state in America. He attended an all-white school, left the Deep South and later married the girl next-door in downtown Detroit – Vita Griffin, a black woman 11 years his senior. They adopted Chipo against overwhelming odds while Tucker was declared, as a foreign correspondent, to be an “enemy of the state†while based in Zimbabwe.
Tucker explored these issues in Love in the Driest Season, a memoir that was named the Inspirational Memoir of the Year by the Books for a Better Life Foundation. It was named one of the best 25 books published that year by the American Booksellers Associatio
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Neely Tucker Biography
Neely Tucker, a staff writer for The Washington Post, was born in Lexington, Mississippi. He has reported from more than 50 countries or territories in Africa, Europe, the Mideast and the nations that compose the former Soviet Union, frequently covering war and violent conflict. He is the basis and namesake for the foreign correspondent in the Elmore Leonard novel, Cuba Libre. He, Vita and Chipo live in Washington, D.C.
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Neely Tucker
Major Works
Neely Tucker, Nov. 12, , at Starkville Public Library. Photo by Nancy Jacobs
- Murder, D.C. (June )
- The Ways of the Dead ()
- Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir ()
Neely Tucker: A Biography
by Kellee Usher (SHS) , Updated
Neely Tucker was born on November 26, , in a small town in Holmes County, Mississippi, called Lexington. His parents are Elizabeth &#;Betty&#; Tucker and Duane Tucker, a local assistant county agent of the Cooperative Extension Service which helps farmers with crop and livestock problems. He has one brother Duane, Jr., who is nicknamed Shane (Tucker 10, 11).
The family moved to a farm outside of Starkville, Mississippi, and Neely was enrolled in Starkville Academy, a private school in Starkville (Tucker 13). While there, Tucker wrote for the school newspaper and played high school football . Ironically, writing wasn&#;t his focus. Instead, football was the center of his attention. He graduated from the Academy in and enrolled at Mississippi State University in Starkville. While still a student at MSU, Tucker spoke with Mississippi writer Willie Morris, whose words of advice about writing and travelin
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