Ross Yockey (1943 – April 13, 2008)[1] was a writer, producer, author, and television journalist.
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.
His wife, JoAnn Yockey, was a soprano who performed with the New Orleans opera company.
[3] At the time of his death, he was working on a book about his experiences with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.