Melissa Fay Greene

Non-Fiction Author

Birthday December 30, 1952

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Macon, GA

Age 71 years old

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About

American nonfiction author best known for her award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing.

Before Fame

She attended Oberlin College and graduated in 1975.

Trivia

She published There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Save Her Country’s Children in 2006 about the orphan crisis in Ethiopia, where four of her children were adopted from.

Family Life

She married Don Samuel in 1979, and they had nine children together, five of whom were adopted from Bulgaria or Ethiopia.

Associated With

Elizabeth Gilbert is another notable American author of nonfiction books.