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Melanie Neale

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Born

Newport News, VA, The United States

Website

http://www.melanieneale.com/

Genre

Memoir, Nonfiction, Fiction

Member Since

August 2012

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Melanie Neale grew up living aboard a 47' sailboat with her parents and her sister. The family traveled the US East Coast and the Bahamas from the mid 1980's to the end of the 1990's, and both daughters were home-schooled until they went to college. Melanie began writing poetry and short stories when she was a young child, and she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Eckerd College in 2002 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Florida International University in 2006. She lived aboard her own 28' sailboat while in graduate school in Miami. She has taught college, captained and crewed on boats, detailed boats, worked in a bait shop, worked in marketing, and currently works as the Director of Care ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 197 ratings · 42 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass 4.11 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boat Kid: How I Survived Swimming with Sharks, Being Homeschooled, and Growing Up on a Sailboat 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoga Onboard a guide for cruisers and live aboards BOOK by Kim Hess, Melanie Neale (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruising World Magazine June 2007: Miami Boat Show Launches 7 New Boats by Rebecca Burg (Goodreads Author), Mark Pillsbury, Robert J Rubadeau 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Young Widower: A Memoir

by John W. Evans (Goodreads Author)

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The Serpent of Venice

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J.D. Vance

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“Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need in me to be accepted by my dad and by other men. If I could do the same things as them, I would be accepted into their world.”
― Melanie Neale, Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass

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