Terry Kay
| Terry Kay | |
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| 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 | |
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Terry Kay, born 10 February 1938, in Royston, Georgia, 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. He has books translated in Japanese, Chinese, French and Greek.
Kay lives in Athens, Georgia with his wife. He has 4 children (Jon Kay, Terri Kerr, Scott Kay, Heather Flury).
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