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Ross Yockey (1943 – April 13, 2008〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Invalid Website )〕) 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IL TROVATORE Domingo, Caballe (1968) (CD) )〕 At the time of his death, he was working on a book about his experiences with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. ==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) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ross Yockey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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