About Elizabeth Harper Neeld

Dr. Elizabeth Harper Neeld is a former Professor of English and Assistant to the President at Texas A&M University whose published work includes eighteen books. A nationally respected authority on the subjects of personal change and organizational change, Dr. Neeld has consulted with individuals and corporations through the United States and from countries abroad, such as Cameroon, West Africa, France, Norway, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Canada and England.

Elizabeth writes spiritual and inspirational nonfiction, leads spiritual retreats, and speaks nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects which include: personal change, prayer, daily quiet time, connecting with the Divine in our most ordinary daily activities, as well as organizational and corporate change.

Elizabeth has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Mademoiselle, Psychology Today Book News, and the Washington Post.

She is listed in Contemporary Authors, Volume 141, p. 333; Who's Who in the World, 13th edition, 1996; and Who's Who in America, 53rd Edition, 1999. Her Ph. D. is in English Literature, with an emphasis on 18th Century English Novel.

Elizabeth lives with her husband, Jerele in Austin, Texas. She is a member of St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin. She is a Democrat.

Elizabeth talks about her life:

I was born in a farm house in the middle of a cotton field forty miles below Atlanta during an ice storm on Christmas Day. My parents and grandparents jokingly said they never forgave me for interrupting their Christmas dinner. I love that my roots go deep into the red clay of Georgia where I was born and then sprout around the base of Lookout Mountain in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area where I grew up and lived until my early thirties. Growing up as the daughter of a preacher father and a gentle, wise mother, I was blessed with a life alive with language: The beautiful verses of the King James' Bible, family stories told as only my father with his Irish heritage could tell them, poems and allegories written and recited by my mother, books saved for me in the Rossville, Georgia, library by Mrs. Miller, the librarian, who was the first person to suggest that someday I would probably write books myself.

I am so appreciative for and feel so blessed by this "river of language" into which I was born. In addition to books and words, I love to cook, to sew, to make art collages, to go country/western dancing, to teach about prayer and daily quiet time, and to attend the opera.

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