Ross Yockey
Screenwriter, Film writer
1943 – 2008
Who was Ross Yockey?
Ross Yockey was a writer, producer, author, and television journalist. He authored 21 books, most notably best selling business book McColl, the Man with America's Money, a biography about banker Hugh McColl. Yockey has written nonfiction, among them biographies of Zubin Mehta and André Previn, and fiction, including three novels about the New Kids on the Block.
In the 1970s Yockey won five Emmy Awards with his documentary Hide Them or Help Them, which uncovered mistreatment of the mentally handicapped. Yockey has also received other prestigious awards from organizations such as the Associated Press, the New York International Film Festival, and the Broadcaster's Promotion Association.
Yockey has taught writing at all academic levels, from elementary school to the graduate level. He received his B.A. from Loyola University New Orleans and his MFA in Creative Fiction from Queens University of Charlotte. He moved to Seattle in 2003 where he and his daughter, L. Beth Yockey Jones, ran Yockey Communication, a firm specializing in books for business. His wife, JoAnn Yockey, was a soprano who performed with the New Orleans opera company.
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- Born
- 1943
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Loyola University New Orleans
- Died
- Apr 13, 2008
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on July 23, 2013
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