• 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.
  • 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 ranks, along with Conrad Aiken, as one of the two most important Georgia poets in the twentieth century.
  • 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...
  • Image from my copy of his Collected Poems, altered by me. These days, James Dickey is remembered as the writer of the novel Deliverance.
  • James Lafayette Dickey, a giant among mid-to-late twentieth-century Southern poets, provided a yes — a definitive sense of place and person.
  • All topics. James Dickey(1923-1997). Writer. ... James Dickey in Lord, Let Me Die But Not Die Out (1970).
  • James Dickey, though he published an astounding amount of poetry throughout his lengthy career, is most closely associated with the line “Squeal like a pig!”
  • He was born James Lafayette Dickey on the 2nd February 1923 in Atlanta,in the state of Georgia, the son of a lawyer.