James Lafayette Dickey Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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, ...
The poet is one who, because he cannot love, imagines what it would be like if he could.
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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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".
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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.
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Daughter Bronwen Dickey is a writer primarily known for her travel essays.
Dickey spent 10 years writing his novel "Deliverance.".
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, volume 105, pg. 163-174. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, Inc., 2002.
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Won a National Book Award in 1966 for his poetry collection "Buckdancer's Choice."
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Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1966-1968.
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Worked for five years as an advertising copywriter in New York City and Atlanta.
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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.
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Graduate of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (B.A. in English, 1949; M.A. in English, 1950).
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Taught at many colleges and universities, including Reed College (Portland, Oregon), San Fernando Valley State College (Northbridge, California), University of Florida (Gainesville), University of South Carolina (Columbia), University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee and Madison).
$1.7 Million
