![]() ![]() Every dollar you give helps fund our ongoing mission to provide Athens with quality, independent journalism. 4 Melissa Fay Greene Quotes on There Is No Me Without You: One Womans Odyssey to Rescue Africas Children, Hunger and No Biking in the House Without a Helmet. ![]() Like what you just read? Support Flagpole by making a donation today. The lecture, set to begin at 1:30 p.m., is free and open to the public, with a brief reception following. ![]() ![]() Her newest book, No Biking in the House Without a Helmet, chronicles her life as a parent with nine children from three continents in the same household. Sheetrock covers the struggles of an African-American community on the Georgia coast against a corrupt and bullying sheriff, and Bombing elucidates the mutual support among the Atlanta Jewish and African-American communities in the wake of the bombing of a synagogue by anti-Semitic white supremacists in 1958. Greene is a gifted journalist with a novelist's eye for detail, and the four award-winning books that have preceded No Biking in the House Without a Helmet are constructed around memorable, finely drawn characters and carefully observed settings. She is eminently well qualified for the task, and two of her five thoroughly researched and well written books have become Civil Rights landmarks, Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing. Writer Melissa Fay Greene will speak on “The Literature of Fact and Why Good Writing Still Matters” in the 20th Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture. ![]()
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