Melissa Fay Greene

Kirk Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Phone: 404.713.8107
Email: mgreene@agnesscott.edu
Office Location: Dana 105

Academic Degrees

• BA, Oberlin College
• PhD Honorary, Emory University

Teaching and Scholarly Interests

Professor Greene’s teaching interests include narrative nonfiction at the undergraduate and graduate levels, with special interests in Solutions Journalism and in story theory.

Professional Activities

Melissa Fay Greene is the author of six books of nonfiction: 

• Praying for Sheetrock (1991)
• The Temple Bombing (1996)
• Last Man Out (2003)
• There is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Save her Country’s Children (2006)
• No Biking in the House Without A Helmet (2011)
• The Underdogs (2016).

Melissa’s work has been translated into 12 languages and has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Book Award nominations, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award, the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award, and the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Arts & Humanities. She’s one of the few living women honored in the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. She has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Newsweek, LIFE, MS, Mother Jones, CNN.com, and other periodicals. Sheetrock was named one of the Top 100 Works of American Journalism of the 20th Century.

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