Ross Yockey is an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 winning writer, producer, author, and television journalist

Journalist

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

Hugh McColl

Hugh L. McColl Jr. is a fourth-generation banker and the former Chairman and CEO of Bank of America. McColl was a driving force behind consolidating a series of progressively larger, mostly Southern banks, thrifts and financial institutions into a super-regional banking force, "the first...

. Yockey has written nonfiction, among them biographies of Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

 and André Previn

André Previn

André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

, and fiction, including three novels about the New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block

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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

Mental retardation

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

Associated Press

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, 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

Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...

 and his MFA in Creative Fiction from Queens University of Charlotte

Queens University of Charlotte

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school has approximately 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students through the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, Jr. School...

. 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

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

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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 Remakable History of the Port Blakely Companies (2007)
• Ruined Landscapes: Paintings of the Balkan War Zone (2000)
• Strictly for the Birds (2004)
• Zubin (1978)