James Dickey

James Dickey was born in Atlanta in 1923, played football at Clemson, then served as a radar operator in a night fighter squadron in the Pacific. He studied at Vanderbilt and worked for six years in advertising in New York and Atlanta, writing slogans by day and poems by night. He published more than twenty collections, received the National Book Award for poetry in 1966, was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, read a poem at the festivities for Jimmy Carter's inauguration, and taught for nearly thirty years in South Carolina. He died in Columbia in 1997.

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• NovelDeliveranceJames Dickey · 1970Literature