Margery Smith Beck has lived in eastern Nebraska for nearly half her 50 years. The first half was spent in the Mississippi Delta, where she grew up and went to school. She’s been a journalist for more than 25 years, starting her career as a reporter and columnist for the Bolivar Commercial in Cleveland, Mississippi, before moving to Fremont, Nebraska, in 1997 and joining the Fremont Tribune as a reporter and editorial page writer. A year later, she joined The Associated Press in Omaha, where she has covered everything from statehouse and federal politics to the trials of serial killers to President George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch of the 2001 College World Series.
In her spare time, she likes to daydream about being a novelist, and she sometimes even sketches out an outline or two and puts a few words together that she fancies could be the next Great American Novel. Or maybe just be published. Or, at the very least, get the attention of a literary agent. A girl can dream, can’t she?
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