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James Dickey
Title: James Dickey
Category: Literature / English
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James Dickey
James Dickey
James Dickey launched his career as a poet surprisingly late in life. His first collection, Into the Stone and Other Poems, was published when he was thirty-seven years old. Dickey’s experience in the military, academic, and advertising worlds before his emergence as a writer provided subjects and training for his art.
Born on February 2, 1923 in Buckhead, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb, to lawyer Eugene Dickey and his wife Maibelle Swift Dickey, James graduated …showed first 75 words of 820 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 820 total…Night Hurdling: Poems, Essays, Conversations, Commencements, and Afterwords in 1983.
In 1990, USC awarded Dickey with an honorary Doctor of Literature. In 1996, he received the Harriet Monroe Prize for lifetime achievement in American Letters. Dickey died in 1997 while having complications from a lung disorder.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Baughman, Ronald. Understanding James Dickey, University of South Carolina Press; Columbia, South Carolina; 1985.
Doxey, William. Notes on Contemporary Literature, Carollton, Georgia; May 1989
The James Dickey Page. www.axs2k.net/goethe
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