Terry Kay

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 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
www.terrykay.com

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).

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)
• Bogmeadow's Wish (2011)
• The Seventh Mirror (2013)
• Song of the Vagabond Bird (2014)

Other books

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

Teleplays

• Run Down the Rabbit

Plays

• Piano Cabaret

External links

• Terry Kay Online
• Terry Kay Bio, Works, and Links
• The Teller of Gentle Stories: An Interview with Terry Kay by Joyce Dixon