More About the Author
R. NEIL SCOTT is the author of three books on the noted Southern American author, Flannery O'Connor:
** An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism (Timberlane Books, 2002) -- Selected by CHOICE as "Outstanding Academic Title for 2002"
** With Val Nye (College of Santa Fe), Postmarked Milledgeville: A Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Correspondence in Libraries and Archives (GC&SU, 2002)
** With Irwin Streight (Royal Military College of Canada), Flannery O'Connor: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Scott received his BA in English from the University of South Florida, his MBA from Stetson University and his M.S.L.S. from Florida State. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, his academic library career has been something of a tour of the South -- Instructor and Public Services Librarian at William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (1976-80); Assistant, then Associate Professor and Head of Reference Services at Stetson University in Deland, Florida (1980-86); a one year stint as Management Consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick on K Street in Washington, DC (1987-88); then, 16 years as Associate, then full Professor and Coordinator for Information Services at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia (1988-2004). Since 2004 he has served as Associate, then full Professor & User Services Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University where he lives with his wife, Sheila, and son, David, in beautiful, historic Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Between reference questions, teaching library research classes and writing articles and book reviews, Scott is presently: unravelling the mystery of the origin of the mummy in O'Connor's Wise Blood for a future article in Shenandoah; shopping a book manuscript around to publishers for his latest book (on the sinking of the HMS Otranto in October, 1918); and, is often seen walking his Siberian Huskey ("He who must be walked") "Max" all over the nearby Stones River National Battlefield.
