Background
Raymond Andrews was born June 6, 1934 in Plainview, Georgia and grew up in north central Georgia.
Raymond Andrews was born June 6, 1934 in Plainview, Georgia and grew up in north central Georgia.
Andrews graduated from Washington High School in 1952. After he finished his tour of duty in of Korea, he attended Michigan State University before moving to New York City where he held a variety of jobs.
Early life and education At age fifteen Andrews moved away to Atlanta, Georgia where he began working and attending high school at Booker T. Washington High School. Following his graduation, he served four years in the United States Air Force. Andrews lived in New York City until 1984.
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"son
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." Andrews married Adelheid "Heidi" Wenger in 1966 in New York City.
Death and afterward Andrews died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Athens, Georgia on November 25, 1991.
