Neil White

Neil White has been a newspaper editor, magazine publisher, advertising executive and federal prisoner. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he operates a small publishing company, writes plays and essays, and teaches memoir writing.

Neil has served as editor of The Oxford Times newspaper, Coast magazine, Coast Business Journal, as well as publisher of New Orleans magazine and Louisiana Life magazine. He also publishes Samir Husni’s Guide to New Magazines, an annual review of magazine launches. He edited the anthology Ten-Minute Plays from Oxford. His essay “A Journey in Journalism: From Idealism to Bankruptcy” was published in Joe Atkins’s book “The Mission: Journalism, Ethics and the World.”

Neil is married to Deborah Hodges Bell, a law professor at The University of Mississippi. They have three children — Lindsay Bell, Neil White, IV and Maggie White.