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A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1971 with a degree in history.
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His novel Grievances was released in 2006, and adapted into the 2012 film Deadline. In 1985-1986 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Ethridge began as a reporter for the Associated Press, worked as a reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer and was managing editor from 1979 to 1988.
He played a key role in the newsroom’s two Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service – for an investigation of brown lung disease and for the PTL scandal.
From 1989 to 1998, Ethridge was president and publisher of The Business Journal of Charlotte. He supervised a number of other business journals across the country and several publications devoted to National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing racing for Newhouse/Advance.
In 1998, Ethridge became president and part-owner of The Cotter Group, a National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing-based sports public relations and marketing agency based in Harrisburg, North Carolina, which became a part of Clear Channel Communications in 2000. His first novel, Grievances, was published in May 2006 by NewSouth Books.
Deadline, a movie version for which he wrote the screenplay, premiered in 2012.
His second novel, Fallout, was published in February 2012 by NewSouth Books. Deadline (2012).
