found: Drye, Willie. Storm of the century, 2002:CIP t.p. (Willie Drye) pub. info. (lives in Lymouth, N.C.; this is 1st book)
found: Plymouth and Washington County, 2014:title page (Willie Drye) page 4 of cover (author and award-winning journalist, Willie Drye, is a contributing editor for National Geographic news; a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
found: Carolina alumni review, Mar./Apr. 2016:page 82 (Phillip Avett "Willie" Drye; author and contributing editor for National geographic)