[2] Neville was born on December 28, 1919, in Manchester, Connecticut, to Howell and Anne Bunce Cheney, and was the youngest of her siblings.

[1] She attended Oxford School in Hartford, then graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in economics in 1940.

[3] Neville died December 14, 1997 in Keene Valley, New York.

[1][5] After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, Neville worked for the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mirror newspapers.

[2] Her other works include Berries Goodman (1965); The Seventeenth-Street Gang (1966); Traveler From a Small Kingdom (1968); and Fogarty (1969).