Neal Thompson is a veteran journalist who has worked for the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and St. Petersburg Times, and whose magazine stories have appeared in Outside, Esquire, Backpacker, and Men’s
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Neal Thompson is a veteran journalist who has worked for the
Baltimore Sun,
Philadelphia Inquirer, and
St. Petersburg Times, and whose magazine stories have appeared in
Outside,
Esquire,
Backpacker, and
Men’s Health. He teaches at the University of North Carolina-Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and is author of
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard, America’s First Spaceman. Thompson, his wife, and their two sons live in the mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina.