Jack Neely
staff writer Born in northern Japan during the reign of Emperor Hirohito, Jack Neely is a descendent of the notorious Major James Neely, who was accused of murdering explorer Meriwether Lewis. Neely studied foreign policy at UT, then went to work in World's Fair crowd control and later as a criminal-defense investigator. He worked for a half-dozen comfortable but undistinguished years as a magazine editor at Whittle before his Metro Pulse career. His first book, Knoxville's Secret History, was published by Scruffy City..