AUTHOR: Neely Tucker
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
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- The Go-Go’s bring “Beauty and the Beat” to the National Recording Registry June 1st, 2026
- Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” May 26th, 2026
- Rosanne Cash: A family history in the National Recording Registry May 22nd, 2026
- Jewish Life in 1776: A Revolutionary Moment May 18th, 2026
- Vintage baseball cards you can use! May 7th, 2026
- Preserving the 175,000 FSA photographs, one at a time May 5th, 2026