A native of Atlanta, George Montgomery served in the Navy Air Corps during World War II before earning his A.B. in English from UGA in 1950. He later served as vice president of the Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company and founded Atlanta-based Montgomery Properties Inc. George Montgomery is the author of two novels, one of which is set in Georgia. In Pillow of Gold, later published as The Eye of the Eagle, he tells the story of the nation's first major gold rush. In And the Mountain Cried, he speculates on the fate of D.B. Cooper, who in 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727 for $200,000 in ransom and parachuted from the plane, never to be seen again. UGA Office of Public Affairs News Service (http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:ESfKhAxEcdQJ:www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/100128_Libraries.shtml+%22george+montgomery%22+%22university+of+georgia%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) Retrieved 4/1/2010.
From the description of George A. Montgomery papers, undated. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 608534047
