Shirley Nelson
Shirley Nelson ( White, born 1925) is an American author of three books, including "The Last Year of the War". Early life. Nelson was born in New Jersey in 1925, and raised in Holliston, Massachusetts, the daughter of fundamentalist Christian parents Arnold and Merlyn White who once belonged to the Shiloh Colony in Maine. She attended Moody Bible Institute and Providence Bible Institute where she met her future husband, the author and academic Rudy Nelson, in the 1940s. The couple married in 1951. Career. Nelson has written three books, including "The Last Year of the War" which received many  positive reviews and which won the Harper-Saxton Fellowship, the Chicago Friends of Literature award for fiction, and Honorable Mention for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1979. She also taught creative writing for ten years at Barrington College. In 2006 she wrote and produced, along with her husband, the documentary film "Precarious Peace: God and Guatemala". In addition, Nelson has published poetry and essays in a variety of magazines and journals, including "Southwest Review", "Family Circle", "Books and Culture", "Old House Journal", and "The Christian Century".