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
- Russell Lee’s Look at America April 14th, 2021
- Medieval Pandemic Cures That Were…Medieval April 12th, 2021
- More Jazz, More Mingus? The Library Has It April 7th, 2021
- Jason Reynolds: Grab the Mic April Newsletter. April 5th, 2021
- New Book Draws on the Library’s Bob Hope Collection March 31st, 2021
- Library Photographer Carol Highsmith: Documenting the Nation’s Beauty and Resilience March 29th, 2021
- Kermit! On Fame, Fortune and the 2020 National Recording Registry March 25th, 2021
- The 2020 Class of the National Recording Registry: A New “Rhythm Nation” March 24th, 2021
- Another Little Piece: A New Way to Study Medieval Manuscript Fragments March 22nd, 2021
- Women’s History Month: Latinas! March 17th, 2021