Occupation Writer Name Raymond Andrews Awards American Book Awards Notable works Appalachee Red Siblings Benny Andrews | Period 1966-1991 Ethnicity African American Role Novelist | |
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Spouse Adelheid "Heidi" Wenger (1966-1980) Books Appalachee Red, Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat T, Baby Sweet's, The last radio baby, Jessie and Jesus | ||
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame interviews Raymond Andrews Family
Raymond Andrews (June 6, 1934 – November 25, 1991) was an African-American novelist.
Contents
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame interviews Raymond Andrews Family
- Remember Raymond Andrews
- Early life and education
- Career
- Marriage and children
- Death and afterward
- Published works
- Awards
- References
Remember Raymond Andrews
Early life and education
Raymond Andrews was born June 6, 1934 in Plainview, Georgia and grew up in north central Georgia. Andrews' parents, George and Viola Andrews, were sharecroppers and he was the fourth of their ten children. At age fifteen Andrews moved away to Atlanta, Georgia where he began working and attending high school at Booker T. Washington High School. Andrews graduated from Washington High School in 1952. Following his graduation, he served four years in the United States Air Force.
Career
After he finished his tour of duty in Korea, he attended Michigan State University before moving to New York City where he held a variety of jobs. Andrews lived in New York City until 1984. While living there he got married and worked numerous of jobs such as an airline agent, air courier, and proofreader.
Andrews' first national publication was in an issue of Sports Illustrated and was written about the first time the game of football had ever been played in the Plainview community where he grew up. In the early 1970s he began publishing his Muskhogean trilogy which told about the life of an African American in the south from the end of World War I to the beginning of the 1960s. The trilogy consists of Appalachee Red, Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee, and Baby Sweet's.
The books written by Raymond Andrews have been applauded by numerous critics and other writers. Novelist Richard Bausch described Andrew's writing as having "a smiling generosity of spirit."
Marriage and children
Andrews married Adelheid "Heidi" Wenger in 1966 in New York City. The couple divorced in 1980.
Death and afterward
Andrews died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Athens, Georgia on November 25, 1991.