Terry Kay

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birthdate = 10 February 1938
birthplace = Hart County, Georgia
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occupation = novelist
nationality = American
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Terry Kay, born 10 February 1938, in Hart County, Georgia, [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-527 Terry Kay] , "New Georgia Encyclopedia"] 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". He won a Southern Emmy Award in 1990 for his teleplay, "Run Down the Rabbit" and received the 2006 Appalachian Heritage Writers Award. [ [http://www.shepherd.edu/ahwirweb/kay/biography.htm Terry Kay: Recipient of the 2006 Appalachian Heritage Writers Award] ]

Kay lives in Athens, Georgia with his wife.

Bibliography

Novels

*"The Year the Lights Came On" (1976)
*"After Eli" (1981)
*"Dark Thirty" (1984)
*"To Dance with the White Dog" (1990)
*"Shadow Song" (1994)
*"The Runaway" (1997)
*"The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene" (1999)
*"Taking Lottie Home" (2000)
*"The Valley of Light" (2003)
*"The Book of Marie" (2007)

Other books

*"To Whom the Angels Spoke: A Story of the Christmas" (1991)
*"Special K: The Wisdom of Terry Kay" (2000)

Teleplays

*"Run Down the Rabbit"

Plays

*"Piano Cabaret"

References

External links

* [http://www.terrykay.com/ Terry Kay Online]
* [http://www.terrykay.com/TerryBio.html Terry Kay Bio]
* [http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Kay_Terry_03.htm The Teller of Gentle Stories] : An Interview with Terry Kay by Joyce Dixon
* [http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid%3A15953 "Made in the Shade: Many fine Southern authors thrive in the shadow of Grisham and Conroy"] , by Christopher Scanlan, "Creative Loafing", 17 June, 2004

Genre:non fiction