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: 3.71 · 4,487 ratings · 859 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
To Be Sung Underwater
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,417 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
Goodnight, Nebraska
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
Far Far Away
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 8 editions
The Dog Who Lost His Bob
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996
Nebraska song
2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
Zipped
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3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
Per Non Lasciarti Andare
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012
Crooked
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 811 ratings — published 1903 — 8 editions
Crushed
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
The Decoding of Lana Morris
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 179 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

“Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.”
Tom McNeal, To Be Sung Underwater

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