Life
Born in Macon, Georgia, Melissa Fay Greene lives in Atlanta with her husband, Don Samuel, a criminal defense attorney and partner in the law firm Garland, Samuel & Loeb. Married in 1979, they are the parents of nine children: Molly, 31, Seth, 28, Lee, 24, Lily, 20, Fisseha ("Sol"), 19, Daniel, 18, Jesse, 17, Helen, 16, and Yosef, 15. The first four children were born into the family; Jesse was adopted from Bulgaria in 1999; Helen, Fisseha, and brothers Daniel and Yosef were adopted from Ethiopia in 2002, 2004, and 2007. Daniel and Yosef's photographs, from years prior to their adoption, and before the author knew they were to become her sons, appear in There is No Me Without You.
Molly Samuel works for KQED Public Radio in San Francisco as a multimedia producer & reporter for the science desk. Molly has also reported for NPR, KALW and High Country News, and has produced audio stories for The Encyclopedia of Life and the Oakland Museum of California. She was a fellow with the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism and a journalist-in-residence at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
Seth Samuel also lives in San Francisco; he is a producer & audio engineer for "Crosscurrents", the daily news program of KALW Public Radio, and for "Voicebox", an arts show devoted to singing.
Lee Samuel [B.A., the Rafael Recanati International School of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, 2012 lives in Atlanta and teaches at The Community School, a high school for teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder, in Decatur, GA. He is also involved with the development of global recreation programs for orphans and vulnerable children through Worldwide Orphans Foundation, most recently in Kenscoff, Haiti.
Lily Samuel, a 2010 recipient of a national gold medal in photography from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, is a junior at Oberlin College and co-chair of SHOFCO-Oberlin, a group supporting the work of Shining Hope for Communities and the Kibera School for Girls in Nairobi. She is a summer volunteer teacher at the Kibera School.
The younger five children live at home, attend high school, play a lot of soccer and basketball, and sometimes express disappointment with what their mother has made for dinner, particularly the lasagna.
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