Melissa Fay Greene

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melissa Fay Greene
Occupation	Non-Fiction Author
Date Of Birth	Dec 30, 1952(1952-12-30)
Age	72
Birthplace	Macon
Country	United States
Birth City	Georgia
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Melissa Fay Greene Biography

Melissa Fay Greene is one of the most popular and richest Non-Fiction Author who was born on December 30, 1952 in Macon, Georgia, United States. American author of nonfiction, best known for her award winning books Praying for Sheetrock (and The Temple Bombing).

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Melissa Fay Greene (born December 30, 1952) is an American nonfiction author. A 1975 graduate of Oberlin College, Greene is the author of six books of nonfiction, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2011 inductee into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and a 2015 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Greene has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Life Magazine, Good Housekeeping, The Atlantic, Readers Digest, The Wilson Quarterly, Redbook, MS Magazine, CNN.com and Salon.com.

The Academy Award-winning Driving Miss Daisy (Best Picture, 1989), written by prize-winning Atlanta native Alfred Alfred Uhry, makes dramatic use of the Temple bombing incident—Miss Daisy is a Temple member—though the chronology is fictionalized.

In 1979, she married Don Samuel and had nine children with him. Five of their children were adopted from Bulgaria or Ethiopia.

Melissa Fay Greene Net Worth

Melissa Fay Greene is one of the richest Non-Fiction Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melissa Fay Greene 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She graduated from Oberlin College in 1975.

In 2006, she published There Is no Me Without You: A Woman’s Odyssey To Save Her Country’s Children. It was about the Ethiopian orphan crisis. Four of her children were adopted from Ethiopia.

The infamous 1915 lynching—by a white mob including civic leaders—of the Jewish 31-year-old manager of the Atlanta Pencil Company, Leo Frank, wrongly convicted and posthumously pardoned for the murder of 13-year-old child worker Mary Phagan, occurred within this same community: Frank was a member of The Temple.

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1996: Finalist, The National Book Award in Nonfiction

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Melissa Ranked on the list of most popular Non-Fiction Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Melissa Fay Greene celebrates birthday on December 30 of every year.

Last Man Out (2002) tells the story of the 1958 mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia and the absurdist American white supremacist coda to the spectacular rescue of a handful of Canadian men. Nearly a week after the collapse of the deepest coal mine in the world, long after all the missing were presumed dead, two groups of miners—injured and desperately dehydrated—were discovered a vertical mile underground. The worldwide focus on the rescue of the first group—through newspapers, television news reports, and movie theater news-reels—inspired a few highly placed officials in the administration of Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia, a staunch segregationist, to invite the survivors and their families to vacation on the coastal resort of Jekyll Island. The state officials conceived it as a PR gimmick that would enlighten the world about the Georgia coast as a tourist destination equal to Florida’s beaches. However, a second group of miners was found alive; when the survivors were finally extricated, the “last man out” turned out to be a Black Nova Scotian, Maurice Ruddick. All tourist accommodations in Georgia were segregated. Rather than a brilliant PR coup, Georgia officials inadvertently insulted Ruddick, a Canadian hero, causing a minor international incident.

Top Facts about Melissa Fay Greene

1. Melissa Fay Greene is an American nonfiction author born in 1952.
2. She has written six books, including “Praying for Sheetrock” and “The Temple Bombing.”
3. Greene has won numerous awards, including the National Book Award finalist and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
4. Her writing focuses on social justice issues, particularly those affecting marginalized communities.
5. Greene’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other publications.
6. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and children.
7. In addition to writing, she is a public speaker and advocate for various causes.
8. Greene holds degrees from Oberlin College and Harvard University.
9. Her latest book, “The Underdogs,” was published in 2016.
10. She is known for her powerful storytelling that blends personal narratives with historical research.