James Dickey was a popular United States poet and novelist. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to a lawyer, Eugene Dickey, and his wife, Maibelle Swift Dickey. He attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's Buckhead (Atlanta) neighborhood. In 1942 he enrolled at Clemson University and played on the football team as a tailback. After one semester, he left school to enlist in the Army Air Corps. Wikipedia
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In this 1981 interview with Don Swaim, James Dickey discusses working in the advertising business, his job as a consultant of poetry at the Library of Congress, and how he once went on welfare in order to work on his writing. wiredforbooks.org/jamesdickey/
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... Index Nancy Crampton James Dickey The Art of Poetry No. 20 Interviewed by Franklin Ashley Issue 65, Spring 1976 View a manuscript page Download a PDF of the full interview ... www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/3741
James Lafayette Dickey, a giant among mid-to-late twentieth-century Southern poets, provided a yesa definitive sense of place and person. education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/american_po...
