Terry Kay

This article is about the novelist. For professional wrestler Romeo Cormier, who used the ring name Terry Kay, see Bobby Kay.
Terry Kay
Born Terry Winter Kay
10 February 1938
Royston, Georgia
Occupation novelist
Nationality American
Notable awards Townsend Prize
Georgia Author of the Year
Southern Emmy Award
Appalachian Heritage Writers Award
Spouse Tommie Duncan Kay
Children four
Relatives 11 siblings
Website
www.terrykay.com

Terry Kay, born 10 February 1938, in Royston, Georgia,[1] is a novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.

Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog.[1] He won a Southern Emmy Award in 1990 for his teleplay, Run Down the Rabbit and received the 2006 Appalachian Heritage Writers Award.[2] He has books translated in Japanese, Chinese, French and Greek.

Kay lives in Athens, Georgia with his wife.[1] He has 4 children (Jon Kay, Terri Kerr, Scott Kay, Heather Flury).

Bibliography

Novels

Other books

Teleplays

Plays

References

  1. 1 2 3 Terry Kay, New Georgia Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ Terry Kay: Recipient of the 2006 Appalachian Heritage Writers Award


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