Neely Tucker

Neely Tucker (born November 26, 1963 in Lexington, Mississippi) is a journalist and writer. He is the author of Love in the Driest Season, an autobiographical story that touches on his journey from his education at a whites-only school in Mississippi, to his marriage to a Jamaican, to his adoption of a Zimbabwean child.[1] A former journalist at The Washington Post, he previously worked as a foreign correspondent in Zimbabwe, where he and his wife Vita lived, eventually adopting a child.[2] He is currently a writer-editor in the Office of Communications at the Library of Congress.