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Terry Kay

American novelist (1938–2020)

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 (1938-02-10)February 10, 1938 Royston, Georgia, U.S.
Died	December 12, 2020(2020-12-12) (aged 82) Athens, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Notable awards	Townsend Prize Georgia Author of the Year Southern Emmy Award Appalachian Heritage Writers Award
Spouse	Tommie Duncan Kay
Children	Four
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Terry Winter Kay (February 10, 1938 – December 12, 2020) was an American author, whose novels examined life in the American South. His most well-known book, To Dance with the White Dog, was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Three of Kay's books became movies.

Early life and career

Born in Royston, Georgia to T.H. and Viola Winn Kay, Kay was the eleventh of twelve children. He graduated from LaGrange College in 1959, majoring in social science. After college he sold insuran

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Biography

He has interviewed The Beatles, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Alfred Hitchcock, Ann-Margret, Kim Novak, Vincent Price, Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Helen Mirren, Hal Holbrooke, Burt Reynolds, Rod Steiger, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, Van Johnson, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, and dozens more of America's leading entertainment celebrities over the last 50 years.

And it has always been a surprise to him.

Because he never intended to be a writer.

Yet, in 2006, Terry Kay was inducted into the Georgia Writers' Hall of Fame in ceremonies conducted at the University of Georgia, honoring the accomplishments of a man who began his writing career in 1959 as an errand boy for a weekly newspaper.

The journey of his career has covered more than 50 years of the most dynamic change in the state's history.

Award-winning novelist Terry Kay was born in Hart County, Georgia, on February 10th, 1938, the eleventh of twelve children. He was reared on a farm and was graduated from West Georgia Junior College in 1957 and from LaGrange

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While reading, I have been –

-- A cowboy (and an Indian) with Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour

-- A Confederate soldier with Joseph Pennell and Philip Lee Williams

-- A pirate with Robert Louis Stevenson

-- An orphan with Charles Dickens

-- An eccentric with Flannery O'Connor

-- A dust-bowl traveler with John Steinbeck

While reading, I have been –

-- A whaler with Herman Melville

-- A gold-dreamer with Erskine Caldwell

-- A small-town barber with Wendell Berry