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A 2006 inductee into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and a 2009 recipient of the Governor's Award in the Humanities, Terry Kay has been further honored in 2015 by the Atlanta Writers Club's designation of its annual fiction award as The Terry Kay Prize for Fiction.
A native of Hart County in northeast Georgia, Kay has been a sports writer and film/theater critic (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), a public relations executive and a corporate officer. He is the author of eighteen published books, including the 2020 release of The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet.His books have been published in more than twenty foreign languages, with To Dance With the White Dog selling two million copies in Japan.
An essayist and regional Emmy-winning screenwriter as well as a novelist, Kay's work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.
LaGrange College and Mercer University have recognized his work with honorary doctorate degrees. |
