Terry Kay

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Terry Kay

Born 10 February 1938
Hart County, Georgia
Occupation novelist
Nationality American
Children four
Official website

Terry Kay, born 10 February 1938, in Hart County, 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]

Kay lives in Athens, Georgia with his wife.[1]

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] 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)

[edit] Other books

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

[edit] Teleplays

  • Run Down the Rabbit

[edit] Plays

  • Piano Cabaret

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Terry Kay, New Georgia Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Terry Kay: Recipient of the 2006 Appalachian Heritage Writers Award

[edit] External links

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