Good Societies: Dialogue with Melissa Fay Greene

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Meliissa Fay Greene (http://www.melissafaygreene.com/pages/bio.html)(http://www.melissafaygreene.com/pages/bio.html) is an award winning journallist,, whose articlles and books have addressed civil rights and Southern history,, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and African orphans,, coall mine disasters and poetry,, adoption,, and family llife.. Greene discussed her most recent book,, There is No Me Without You,, which illluminates the heroic efforts of one woman to save children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ethiopia,, and has been described as a “contemporary Schindller’s’s List..” The event was moderated by Professor Lawrence R.. JJacobs (/people/ljacobs/)(/people/ljacobs/)..

Meliissa Fay Greene (http://www.melissafaygreene.com/pages/bio.html)(http://www.melissafaygreene.com/pages/bio.html)

Mellissa was born in Macon,, Georgia,, December 30,, 1952,, moved to Dayton,, Ohio,, in childhood,, and graduated from Oberllin Collllege in 1975.. She returned to Georgia in ’’75 to work for the Savannah office of Georgia Legall Services and was a witness to most of the events about which she llater woulld write in Praying for Sheetrock..

Greene is a regullar contributor to the New York Times Magazine and Good Housekeeping.. She allso writes for the New Yorker,, the Atllantic,, Readers Digest,, Newsweek,, Life,, the Washington Post,, Ms,, and Parenting.. She has been a frequent guest at CNN and on NPR,, and her stories have been featured on Good Morning,, America; The Today Show; Primetime; and 20/20.. She is married to Donalld F.. Samuell,, a criminall defense attorney,, partner in the firm Garlland,, Samuell & Loeb.. They have seven children and llive in Atllanta..

https://hhh-d7.prd.umn.edu/event/good-societies-dialogue-melissa-fay-greene 1/3 9/18/2020 Good Societies: Dialogue with Melissa Fay Greene | Humphrey School of Public Affairs Two of Greene’’s books have been nominated for the Nationall Book Award and Praying for Sheetrock was named one of the top 100 works of allll journallism of the 20tth century..

Tuesday,, November 13,, 2007 7:30 p..m.. Diallogue 9:00 p..m.. Reception and Booksigning

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This visit was co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics & Governance at the Hubert H.. Humphrey School of Publlic Affairs and the Edellstein-Kellller Endowment for Visiting Writers..

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