Ross Yockey (1943 – April 13, 2008) was a writer, producer, author, and

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. He authored 21 books, most notably best selling business book ''McColl, the Man with America's Money'', a biography about banker

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. Yockey has written nonfiction, among them biographies of

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and

André Previn André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...

, and fiction, including three novels about the

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. In the 1970s Yockey won five Emmy Awards with his documentary ''Hide Them or Help Them'', which uncovered mistreatment of the

mentally handicapped Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability in the United Kingdom and formerly mental retardation,Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010). is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by signific ...

. Yockey has also received other prestigious awards from organizations such as the

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, the

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, 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 Loyola University New Orleans is a Private university, private Jesuit university in New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name o ...

and his MFA in Creative Fiction from

Queens University of Charlotte The Queens University of Charlotte is a private university in Charlotte, North Carolina. It has approximately 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students through the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, ...

. He moved to

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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. At the time of his death, he was working on a book about his experiences with

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Partial bibliography

*''André Previn'' (1981) *''The Builder: The Crosslands and How They Shaped a Region'' (2005) *''A Century of Quality: American & Efird People'' (1991) *''Craving Community: The New American Dream'' (2007) *''McColl: The Man With America’s Money'' (1999) *''Miracle in Jerusalem: An Easter Story'' (1992) *''On Any Given Day'' (2000) *''Responsible to the Earth: The Remarkable History of the Port Blakely Companies'' (2007) *''Ruined Landscapes: Paintings of the Balkan War Zone'' (2000) *''Strictly for the Birds'' (2004) *''Zubin'' (1978)

Notes and references

*http://campus.queens.edu/library/misc/fol/b&a.htm *http://yockeycommunication.com/index.php?page=why-yockey *http://www.blairpub.com/bio&memoir/onanygivenday.htm American male screenwriters 1943 births 2008 deaths Queens University of Charlotte alumni American male journalists 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American biographers 21st-century American biographers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters American male biographers {{US-screen-writer-stub