FAQs About Neil

• Neil White was born on December 5, 1960 in Gulfport, Mississippi. 

• Neil is married to Deborah Hodges Bell, a law professor at The University of Mississippi. They met in church, despite persistent rumors that they fell in love in prison while she represented him.

• Neil and Debbie have three children — Lindsay Bell (a grad student at The University of Michigan), Neil White IV (a recent graduate of Princeton University), and Maggie White (a student at Davidson College).

• Neil is the oldest child of Neil W. White, Jr. and Jane Stanley. He has four siblings, Harry Kinross White (a classical saxophonist who lives in Zurich), Liz White (a legal office manager living in Meridian, Mississippi), Jamie White (a development officer at the Ole Miss Law School) and Johnny White (a student living in Alexandria, Louisiana).

• Neil operates a small publishing company in Oxford, Mississippi.

• Neil’s produced plays include: Lepers & Cons (with apologies to my friends at Carville), Paper, Symmetry, Clandestine, You’re Getting Very Sleepy, Mates and Deviant.