Melany Neilson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melany Neilson
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Dec 1, 1958(1958-12-01)
Age	66
Birthplace	Moses Lake
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Melany Neilson Biography

Melany Neilson is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on December 1, 1958 in Moses Lake, Washington, United States. Melany Neilson, born December 1, 1958 in Moses Lake (Washington), is an American author.

The Persia Cafe was her first novel and received high praise. The novel is about a race crime that took place in a Mississippi River town in 1962. It explores themes of identity and friendship as well as family, race, and American history. Neilson returns to many of the themes and locations of “a time in which the old Southern order was about to change, when blacks began to claim the rights they had been denied and when too many whites violently resisted them and any other whites (there certainly weren’t many) who seemed sympathetic to the black cause. Some criticised Neilson for giving the FBI a positive role, which in reality it rarely filled in the South’s most difficult years in the 1960s. However, most reviewers focused on Neilson’s “death throes in the Jim Crow South” as well as his ability to capture the “feel of a culture at a specific time and the ineffable moment when a heart changes.”

Even Mississippi, her first book about Southern politics, was published by Neilson in 1989. It received the Lillian Smith Award and the Mississippi Authors Award as well as the Gustavas Meyer Outstanding Book on Human Right and a nomination to the Pulitzer Prize. Neilson’s work with Robert Clark, the Democratic Party nominee to U.S. Congress 1982 and 1984, as well as her “evolution” as a white among Africans seeking a new Mississippi, was chronicled by Neilson. The book focuses on Neilson’s family and how it relates to Mississippi politics. It primarily focuses on Neilson’s emotional struggles as a young woman of color from a Delta family that violates deeply-rooted racial, caste and gender taboos when she works for a black politician. The book is hailed as “one the most fascinating of… conversion stories – and by one the youngest of Southern authors who have written books about the subject,” even Mississippi has become a first-person narrative source for books that explore race, politics, and the South.

Melany Neilson Net Worth

Melany Neilson is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melany Neilson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Neilson was born in Lexington, Mississippi. He attended Central Holmes Academy in segregated Lexington. Nelson graduated later from the University of Mississippi in 1979 with a degree as an English teacher and in 1986 with a master’s in journalism.

HarperCollins, HarperCollins’ publisher, identified eight sentences that were similar to the passages in Barbara Kingsolver’s 1988 novel The Bean Trees a month after publication. The eight sentences were changed by Neilson, and St. Martin’s printed the changes in subsequent editions. St. Martin’s reports that Neilson wrote Kingsolver a letter of apology for the “unintentional inclusion” of the language and offered to make amends in person.

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Melany Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Melany Neilson celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.