- Born
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- Birth nameJames Lafayette Dickey
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Born Feb. 2nd, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey served in the U.S. Air Force during W.W. II and went on to earn a BA & MA from Vanderbilt University and become a celebrated American author & poet, winning numerous awards for his literary works.
To film goers, he is best known as the as the author of the best selling book turned gripping, psychological film Deliverance (1972) starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight. Dickey has a small, but pivotal role near the film's conclusion as a steely Southern sheriff who doesn't wholly believe the businessmen's story about the ill-fated canoe.
Dickey passed away on January 19th, 1997.
- IMDb mini biography by: firehouse44@hotmail.com
- SpousesDodson, Deborah(December 30, 1976 - January 19, 1997) (his death, 1 child)Syerson, Maxine(November 4, 1948 - October 27, 1976) (her death, 2 children)
- World War II and Korean War veteran. Flew night fighter and radar observation missions in the South Pacific with U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, and served as a training officer with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.
- Dickey spent 10 years writing his novel "Deliverance.".
- Before Dickey's death, there were talks of making a movie from his last novel, To the White Sea, with the Coen Brothers in negotiations to direct.
- Graduate of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (B.A. in English, 1949; M.A. in English, 1950).
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1966-1968.
- I think [Allen Ginsberg] has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, "If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that".
- A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
- The poet is one who, because he cannot love, imagines what it would be like if he could.
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