Neil White III 1960
------------------------------------------ Born December 5, 1960, in Gulfport, Mississippi, author Neil White currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi. Neil is the oldest child of Neil W. White, Jr., and Jane Stanley, and he has four siblings: Harry Kinross White, a classical saxophonist living in Zurich; Liz White, a legal office manager living in Meridian, Mississippi; Jamie White, a development officer at the Ole Miss Law School; and Johnny White, a student living in Alexandria, Louisiana. White has written plays entitled Lepers & Cons, Paper, Symmetry, Clandestine, You’re Getting Very Sleepy, Mates and Deviant. In addition, he edited the anthology Ten-Minute Plays from Oxford. He has been a newspaper editor, magazine publisher, advertising executive, and federal prisoner. The latter resulted from his desire to keep his magazine business afloat. He began transferring funds he didn’t actually have between bank accounts (a practice known as check kiting) and ended up in federal prison in 1993 on charges of fraud. He served almost eighteen months of his sentence in Carville, Louisiana, at a federal prison that also housed the last leper colony in the United States. In his memoir, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, published by William Morrow in 2009, White tells about his experiences and the people he met there.
Today White operates a small publishing company, writes plays
and essays, and currently travels talking about his memoir.
Before his incarceration, White served as editor of The
Oxford Times newspaper, Coast
magazine, and Coast Business Journal,
as well as publisher of New Orleans
magazine and Louisiana Life magazine.
He currently publishes Samir Husni’s Guide
to New Magazines, an annual review of magazine
launches as well as several other magazines. He is also the
editor of the anthology Ten-Minute Plays from Oxford.
His essay “A Journey in Journalism: From Idealism to Bankruptcy”
was published in Joseph B. Atkins’s book The
Mission: Journalism, Ethics and the World. Neil White is now married to Deborah Hodges Bell, a law professor at The University of Mississippi. They have three children: Lindsay Bell, Neil White IV, and Maggie White.
1976-1985 Competitive Speaking Awards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil White's web site provides information about his book and his life. Harper
Collins's web page for author Neil White. A Conversation with Neil White. Harper
Collins' Reading Guide for In the Sanctuary of Outcasts. --------------------------------------------------------- RETURN TO MISSISSIPPI WRITERS MAIN PAGE Photo right: Neil White, III Author Neil White's web page at http://www.neilwhite.com/author/
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When
he was released from prison, Neil White found that he had lost
his reputation, his marriage, and very important time with his
two young children (who are now college age). However, while
he was imprisoned at Carville, he learned some lessons about
living which he has written about in his recently-published
memoir.
Honors
and Awards 
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