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Ross Yockey
In the 1970s Yockey won five Emmy Awards with his documentary Hide Them or Help Them, which uncovered mistreatment of the mentally handicapped. Yockey 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 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. At the time of his death, he was working on a book about his experiences with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Books by Ross Yockey André Pevin (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 Remakable History of the Port Blakely Companies (2007) Ruined Landscapes: Paintings of the Balkan War Zone (2000) Strictly for the Birds (2004) Zubin (1978)
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Ross Yockey (1943–2008) was an Emmy Award winning writer, producer, author, and television journalist. He authored 21 books, most notably the best-selling business book McColl: The Man with America's Money, a biography about legendary banker Hugh McColl. Yockey has written nonfiction, among them biographies of Zubin Mehta and André Previn, and fiction.