Shirley Faye Nelson (née White, October 12, 1925 – April 27, 2022) was an American author of three books, including The Last Year of the War.[1][2][3]
Nelson was born in New Jersey in 1925, and raised in Holliston, Massachusetts, the daughter of fundamentalist Christian parents Arnold and Merlyn White who once belonged to the Shiloh Colony in Maine.[4][5][6] She attended Moody Bible Institute and Providence Bible Institute where she met her future husband, the author and academic Rudy Nelson, in the 1940s. The couple married in 1951.[1][2][7][8]
Nelson wrote three books, including The Last Year of the War which received many positive reviews and which won the Harper-Saxton Fellowship, the Chicago Friends of Literature award for fiction, and Honorable Mention for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1979. She also taught creative writing for ten years at Barrington College. In 2006 she wrote and produced, along with her husband, the documentary film Precarious Peace: God and Guatemala. In addition, Nelson published poetry and essays in a variety of magazines and journals, including Southwest Review, Family Circle, Books and Culture, Old House Journal, and The Christian Century.[1][2][9] After publishing her first book, Nelson earned a master's degree in English from the University of Albany.[10]
Nelson died in Amherst, Massachusetts on April 27, 2022, at the age of 96.[11]
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