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Neely Tucker is a journalist at the Washington Post and the author of Love in the Driest Season. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa for the Detroit Free Press. He currently writes for the Style section of the Washington Post.
Elmore Leonard named a character after Tucker in his 1998 novel Cuba Libre.
He is currently married to his second wife, Carol Smith, whom he met while writing article about the murder of her daughter, Erika. Tucker has since been very involved in the murder trial, which came to a close early September of 2008, with the culprit - Anthony Kelly - being awarded four life sentences and one hundred years in prison without parole for the murder of Erika, her father, the rapes of two women, and various felonies associated with the crimes.
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