Neely Tucker
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Neely Tucker is a staff writer in the Sunday Magazine. He has reported from more than 50 countries around the world and from two dozen of these United States. He is the author of “Love in the Driest Season.” A native of Mississippi, he now lives with his family just outside of D.C. He is an embarrassingly huge fan of Mississippi State and the New Orleans Saints.

Latest by Neely Tucker

Exhibit review: ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ at the Folger Library

Exhibit review: ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ at the Folger Library

The exhibit “Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700” explores writers of the Shakespearean era.

Bad boy makes good as children’s author

Bad boy makes good as children’s author

Walter Dean Myers, popular with the middle-school set, is named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

Novel ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ races to acclaim

Novel ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ races to acclaim

At least 19 major year-end roundups cite Tea Obreht’s novel as one of 2011’s best, according to Publishers Lunch.

The real Taraji P. Henson

The real Taraji P. Henson

As one of the stars of a hot new CBS crime drama, the D.C. native recalls her days of substitute teaching and rejection slips.