[2] At age fifteen Andrews moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived at the Butler Street YMCA with his oldest brother.
[1] After he finished his tour of duty, Andrews briefly attended Michigan State University before moving to New York City where he held a variety of jobs.
[1] Andrews' first national publication was in an issue of Sports Illustrated in 1966 and was written about the first time the game of football had ever been played in the Plainview community where he grew up.
On his thirty-second birthday, Andrews quit his airline job and decided to focus solely on making a career as a writer.
[2] In the early 1970s Dial Press began publishing his Muskhogean trilogy about the life of an African American in the south from the end of World War I to the beginning of the 1960s.