Neely Tucker is a writer-editor in the Library’s Office of Communications. He manages the Library of Congress blog and writes for LCM, the Library’s magazine. Before joining the Library in 2019, he spent 17 years at The Washington Post, primarily as a roving national reporter based in the Style section. He was a foreign correspondent for the Detroit Free Press for most of the 1990s, working in more than 60 countries or territories in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In between, he has written a memoir, three novels and taught narrative non-fiction at American University and Mississippi State University. A Mississippi native, he split his college years between Mississippi State and the University of Mississippi, graduating magna cum laude from the latter with a B.A. in Journalism.
Most Recent Posts
- Free to Use and Reuse: Maps of Discovery and Exploration January 13th, 2020
- Inventing the Modern World January 6th, 2020
- The Man Who Recorded The World January 2nd, 2020
- Free to Use and Reuse: Glasses December 23rd, 2019
- The Nazi War Atlas of Operation Barbarossa December 19th, 2019
- Dear (Whoever You Are), Here’s the First Christmas Card December 17th, 2019
- Name That Actress…If You Can December 10th, 2019
- Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: A Short Documentary December 6th, 2019
- Thomas Jefferson: A Man of the Pasta December 2nd, 2019
- The Mystery of Lincoln’s First Inauguration Photograph November 20th, 2019