Dan Neil, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist...
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Biography
Neil was born in Pennsylvania in 1960 but moved with his family to New Bern, North Carolina when he was 4 years old. He received a B.A. degree in Creative Writing from East Carolina University and an M.A. degree in English Literature from North Carolina State University. He is married (Tina Larsen) and has twin daughters, Rosalind and Vivienne. He has a 23-year-old son, Henry Neil, from his first marriage.
East Carolina and N.C. State - not exactly bastions of the intellectual...