Tom McNeal





Tom McNeal

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Tom McNeal was born in Santa Ana, California, where his father and grandfather raised oranges. He spent part of every summer at the Nebraska farm where his mother was born and raised, and after earning a BA in English at UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, he taught school in the town that was the inspiration for his novel, Goodnight, Nebraska. Tom has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and his short stories have been widely anthologized.


Average rating: 3.70 · 2,700 ratings · 532 reviews · 8 distinct works
To Be Sung Underwater
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,163 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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Goodnight, Nebraska
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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The Dog Who Lost His Bob
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Nebraska song
1.0 of 5 stars 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011
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Crushed
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3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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Zipped
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3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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The Decoding of Lana Morris
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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“For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.”
Tom McNeal

“Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world...but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.”
Tom McNeal

“Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.”
Tom McNeal, To Be Sung Underwater

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