![]() ![]() ![]() ActivismĪfter earning her degree, she became thoroughly involved in local activism and created a community-based housing program for female felons in an area of Pittsburgh called Shady Side. In 1971, she moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was awarded a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Pittsburgh. ![]() She attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and was the only child in her cl* of Pennsylvania German dialect (popularly known as Pennsylvania Dutch) students to speak English fluently and was the only student of African-American descent to attend her elementary and high school. Biography Early life and educationīarbara Neely was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1941, was the oldest of three children born to Ann and Bernard Neely who lived in a rural Pennsylvania Dutch community in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. The Mystery Writers of America named her their 2020 Grand Master winner. Her first novel, Blanche on the Lam (1992), introduced the protagonist Blanche White, a middle-aged mother, domestic worker and amateur detective. ![]() Barbara Ann Neely (often self-stylized as BarbaraNeely Novem– March 2, 2020) was an African-American novelist, short story writer and activist who wrote murder mysteries. ![]()
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