• James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966.
  • James Dickey (1923-1997), with his unique vision, often violent imagery, and eccentric style, created for himself a place as an important American poet in the last...
  • Dickey: His Letters and Life 1970-1997, 2005The Complete Poems of James Dickey, 2013Death, and the Day's Light, 2015.
  • Author James Dickey holding cheek-to-cheek with a ceramic mask of his face designed by Billy Dunlap, at home.
  • James Dickey. 1,012 likes · 1 talking about this. One of the great American poets and novelists of the 20th Century.
  • Image from my copy of his Collected Poems, altered by me. These days, James Dickey is remembered as the writer of the novel Deliverance.
  • IMDbPro. All topics. James Dickey(1923-1997). Writer. Actor. ... James Dickey in Lord, Let Me Die But Not Die Out (1970).
  • On February 2, 1923, James Dickey was born in Buckhead, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. His interest in poetry was awakened by his father, a lawyer who used to...
  • He was born James Lafayette Dickey on the 2nd February 1923 in Atlanta,in the state of Georgia, the son of a lawyer.
  • James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in order to live as fully as possible.