![]() It was named a best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune, the Toronto Globe & Mail, the Cox newspaper chain, and the New York Public Library. Last Man Out (2002), tells the story of the 1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia, mine disaster, an Afro-Canadian hero, and an unlikely trip to the Georgia coast by the survivors during which the hero was segregated. Also a National Book Award Finalist, it won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award. The Temple Bombing (1996), describes the attack on an Atlanta synagogue during the massive white resistance to de-segregation in the 1950s. Kennedy Book Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, Sheetrock was named to the list of 100 works of print, radio, television, and photography cited as the best American journalism of the 20th century and included in Entertainment Weeklys special New Classics edition naming The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years. ![]() A finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, winner of the Robert F. ![]() ![]() Greene was a witness to the events described in Praying for Sheetrock (1991), the story of a courthouse gang on the rural coast of Georgia and the black community that tried to dislodge it. Melissa Fay Greene was born in Macon, Georgia moved to Dayton, Ohio, in childhood graduated from Oberlin College in 1975, and returned to Georgia, where she has lived in Savannah, Athens, Rome, and now Atlanta. ![]()
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