Indexed works
Works about or by William Nealy. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
Wallace, Daniel · 2023
Daniel Wallace, the Chapel Hill novelist, writes about his brother-in-law and longtime friend William Nealy (1953-2001), an illustrator and cartoonist who had been the hero of Wallace's younger years. The subtitle gives the premise: a man Wallace thought he knew, whose life and death he tries to make sense of. The story is set in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. First edition, 2023, 258 pages with illustrations.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Nealy, William, 1953-2001.
Daniel Wallace papers, 1977-2007.
Wallace, Daniel, 1959- · 1977
The novelist Daniel Wallace, born 1959, is represented by about 9,600 items in thirteen linear feet dated 1977 to 2007, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5327. Subjects include his novel 'Big fish: a novel of mythic proportions' and the motion picture made from it, along with William Nealy, time in Japan and the study of Japanese, and family life in Alabama and North Carolina.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Nealy, William, 1953-2001.
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