Biographical Sketch -- Steve Neal Steve Neal--author, political columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and friend of the Truman Library--died at his home in Hinsdale, Illinois on February 18, 2004. He was 54 years of age. A native of Oregon, Steve earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Oregon in 1971 and a master's degree at Columbia University in 1972. He covered the White House for the Chicago Tribune during President Reagan's first term, and went to work for the Sun-Times in 1987. He became one of the nation's best-known and best-liked political reporters. Steve also found time to write or edit eleven books, four of which dealt with President Truman: Harry and Ike: The Partnership that Remade the Postwar World (2001); Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (2002); Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops (2003); and HST: Memories of the Truman Years (2003). His last book, on the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is scheduled for publication in 2004. Steve was a frequent and welcome visitor to the Truman Library. He served on the Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Academic Relations of the Truman Library Institute, and helped select the winner of the biennial Harry S. Truman Book Award. Steve's survivors include his wife, Susan, and two daughters, Erin and Shannon. His many friends will remember him with fondness and gratitude. -- from Summer 2004 edition of Whistlestop, a quarterly publication of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute