For other uses, see James Dickey (disambiguation).
James Dickey
Born
James Lafayette Dickey (1923-02-02)February 2, 1923 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died
January 19, 1997(1997-01-19) (aged 73)[1][2] Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.[1][2]
Occupation
Poet
novelist
critic
lecturer
Nationality
American
Period
Contemporary literature
Notable works
Deliverance[3]
Buckdancer's Choice
Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems
To the White Sea
Notable awards
National Book Award for Poetry
Guggenheim Fellowship
United States Poet Laureate (1966–1968)
Order of the South
Spouses
Maxine Syerson
(m. 1948; died 1976)
[1][2]
Deborah Dodson
(m. 1976)
[1][2]
Children
Christopher Dickey[1][2]
Kevin Dickey[1][2]
Bronwen Dickey[1][2]
Relatives
Thomas Swift Dickey, Sr. (brother)
Signature
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Army
Army Air Forces
United States Air Force
Years of service
1943 (1943)–1946 (1946) (Army)
1952 (1952)–1954 (1954) (Air Force)
Unit
Fifth Air Force
418th Night Fighter Squadron[4]
Battles/wars
World War II
Pacific War[4]
New Guinea campaign[4]: 303
Philippines campaign[4]: 183
Borneo campaign[4]: 317
Korean War[2]
Awards
Bronze Star Medal (5)[4]
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist.[3] He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966.[5] He also received the Order of the South award.
Dickey is best known for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 1972 film of the same name.
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James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate...
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JamesDickey coached the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball teams from 1991 to 2001. Source: Source: The Texas Tech Red Raiders became a charter member...
Bronwen Dickey (born, May 17, 1981) is an American author, journalist, and lecturer. Bronwen Dickey obtained an MFA in Non-fiction Writing from Columbia...
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novelists include JamesDickey (Deliverance), James Still (River of Earth), Elizabeth Spencer (The Light in the Piazza), and James Patterson, who topped...
in 1972's Deliverance. Directed by John Boorman, from a script that JamesDickey had helped to adapt from his own novel of the same name, it tells the...
magazine published fiction by Saul Bellow, Seán Ó Faoláin, John Updike, JamesDickey, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael...
for 22 books[clarification needed] written by best-selling mystery writer James Lee Burke.[when?][citation needed] He has recorded more than 45 audiobooks...
Beacon Journal. Retrieved 6 November 2009. JamesDickey, Gordon Van Ness (2005). The One Voice of JamesDickey, University of Missouri Press. Alan Feiler...
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based on the poem by JamesDickey. Hanley later starred in "Bronwen, the Traw and the Shapeshifter," also based on a JamesDickey poem. Hanley was a guest...
imagery. Roethke was praised by former U.S. Poet Laureate and author JamesDickey as "in my opinion the greatest poet this country has yet produced." He...
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Global Information
United States
Bronze Star Medal (5)[4]
