James Dickey - (1923-1997)
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By Juan Chandel I. Biography Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
After serving as a pilot in the second World War II, he attended Vanderbilt University. Having earned an MA in 1950, Dickey returned to military duty in the Korean War, serving with the US Air
Force. When he returned home, Dickey taught at Rice University in Texas and also at the University of Florida. He worked for advertising agencies in New York and Atlanta from 1955 to 1961.
Dickey published his first book in 1962, in Middletown, Connecticut. The name of the book is Into the Stone. He started writing his poem in residence and Carolina Professor of
English at the University of South Carolina. The third volume Buckdancer's Choice (Middletown, 1965), and it won the prestigious National Book Award in Poetry. He served
as poetry consultant to the Library or Congress from 1966 to 1968. What brought Dickey the fame was the Hollywood film of his novel Deliverance. II. Sources
Stull, Richard. "About James Dickey." The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry English.Oxford: Oxford UP,1994.1
This essay was submitted by a student of Debbie Wooten, a teacher at Bacon County High School in Alma, Georgia.