Melissa+Fay+Greene

Melissa Fay Greene is an author that was born in Macon, Georgia. She is the daughter of Rosalyn Pollock and Gerald A. Greene. She as two award winning books and as a total of 4 books; Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, Last Man Out, There Is No Me Without You. She moved to Dayton, Ohio, and grew up and attended school; she got her bachelor degree in 1975. She eventually moved back to Georgia to work with her husband for the savannah office of Georgia Legal Services Program. When she worked there she started research for what would be her first book. Her husband, Donald Franklin Samuel, is an Atlanta,Georgia Crimanal Defence attorney; and they have five kids. Her first book was Praying for Sheetrock chronicals the coming of the civil rights movement to Mclnotsh County in Coastal Georgia in the 1970s. It is about the white sheriff who has ran the city for 31 years and an african american who becomes the spokes man for his disfranchised community. she discuss the rise and fall of both men and the story, unlike others, does not end in happiness. (picture under this)

The Temple Bombing is a book that basicly talks about Jacob Rothschild, rabbi of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in Atlanta, whose temple gets bombed by still-unidentified individuals in October 1958; there were a group of white people who were racist who many people thought should be held responisble for the bombing. This is her 2th book. (picture of the book is to the right)

This is her 3rd book The Last Man.