- Image from my copy of his Collected Poems, altered by me. These days, James Dickey is remembered as the writer of the novel Deliverance.
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- James Dickey was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He is best known for his 1970 novel Deliverance, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film.
- James Dickey James Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was a popular United States poet and novelist.
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- James Dickey was one of the most well known and one of the least appreciated authors in America in the mid century; but Dickey’s first love was poetry.
- James Dickey. 1,012 likes · 1 talking about this. One of the great American poets and novelists of the 20th Century.
- James Dickey was born in 1923 in Georgia, Atlanta, where he would attend the North Fulton High School for the majority of his early education.
- However, James Dickey's dominant medium was poetry, not bestselling fiction. He maintained that poetry should be concerned with basic emotions.
- James Dickey was an American poet, novelist, and critic best known for his poetry combining themes of nature mysticism, religion...