“Blanche White is back-talking trash, telling truth and treating anybody who reads her new tale to a very good time, indeed!“Īre you the author profiled here? Email us your official website or Let us host your primary web presence. Neely’s heroine Blanche is a heavy-set, dark-skinned Black woman who works as a maid who is proud of her work and does not let it get in the way of her independence and proud personality.

That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. She began publishing her Blanche White mystery novels in 1992 with Blanche on the Lam, followed by Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, Blanche Cleans Up, and Blanche Passes Go. Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. Neely published her first short story in 1981, “Passing the Word” Essence magazine. In the first of the Blanche White mystery series,the witty and determined Blanche finds herself,unexpectedly embroiled in a case of hidden family,secrets. In 1971 she moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she was awarded a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Pittsburgh. She attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and was the only child in her class of Pennsylvania German dialect (popularly known as Pennsylvania Dutch) students to speak English fluently and was the only student of African American descent to attend her elementary and high school. Her Blanche Series debut novel, Blanche on the Lam (1992) introduces us to her. Barbara Neely is a 1-Time Bestselling Authorīarbara Neely was born in 1941and lived in a rural Pennsylvania Dutch community in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Barbara Neely is an African-American author of mystery and thrillers books.

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