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Neely Tucker Visit

Neely Tucker, an author, foreign correspondent and Washington Post reporter, will be visiting Woodberry in April following a 23-city book tour. Tucker will speak at the Monday night assembly on April 5th and will be a guest lecturer in Nat Jobe's history classes.

Neely Tucker, a reporter for the Washington Post, was born in Lexington, Mississippi. He has reported from more than 50 countries or territories in Africa, Europe, the Mideast and the nations that compose the former Soviet Union, frequently covering war and violent conflict. He is the basis and namesake for the foreign correspondent in the Elmore Leonard novel, Cuba Libre.

Tucker most recent book, Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, was released last week.
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