Neely Tucker Biography

Neely Tucker has worked in more than 50 countries on four continents. He covered violent conflicts in Europe Africa and the Middle East for years before falling in love with a terribly ill infant who had been left to die on the day she was born in AIDS-devastated Zimbabwe. Today that child is named Chipo Katherine Tucker. He attended an all-white school left the Deep South and later married the girl next-door in downtown Detroit Vita Griffin a black woman 11 years his senior. Tucker explored these issues in Love in the Driest Season a 2004 memoir that was named the Inspirational Memoir of the Year by the Books for a Better Life Foundation. It was named one of the best 25 books published that year by the American Booksellers Association and the New York City Public Library among others. The Tuckers story has touched listeners of National Public Radio and readers of magazines as diverse as Elle Essence and Reader Digest.

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