James Dickey (1923–1997)
Autor/a de Deliverance
Sobre l'autor
James Lafayette Dickey, an American poet and novelist, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1923. He is perhaps best known for Deliverance, his novel about four suburban men struggling to survive a canoe trip gone awry, which was made into a popular movie of the same title, starring Burt Reynolds. mostra'n més Dickey also published several volumes of poetry that are marked by his portrayal of a world in conflict. His collected poems (1942-1992) were published under the title The Whole Motion in 1992. After serving as a pilot during World War II, Dickey earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. He taught at several universities and worked as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress from 1966 to 1968. He died in 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Christopher Dickey
Obres de James Dickey
Deliverance, A Novel by James Dickey 5 exemplars
Deliverance (Paperback) 2 exemplars
The Suspect In Poetry 2 exemplars
The owl king 2 exemplars
How to enjoy poetry 1 exemplars
The Indiscreet Mirror [article, in Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, May 16, 1984;… (1984) 1 exemplars
James Dickey tells about Deliverance 1 exemplars
Strength of Fields 1 exemplars
Exchanges 1 exemplars
Two poems of the air 1 exemplars
Into the Stone & Other Poems 1 exemplars
The Weather of the Valley, Reflections on the Soul and Its Making (an address by James Dickey) 1 exemplars
Dickey James 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (1903) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 996 exemplars
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Col·laborador — 447 exemplars
The Red Badge of Courage And Four Stories (Signet Classic) (1997) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 297 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places (Adrenaline) (1999) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
Where is Vietnam? American poets respond; an anthology of contemporary poems (1967) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 33 exemplars
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
South: Modern Southern Literature in Its Cultural Setting (1961) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 12 exemplars
Pages : the world of books, writers, and writing (1976) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 3 exemplars
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 3, June 1955 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
New world Writing 21 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Dickey, James Lafayette
- Data de naixement
- 1923-02-02
- Data de defunció
- 1997-01-19
- Lloc d'enterrament
- All Saints Waccamaw Cemetery, Pawleys Island, South Carolina, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Buckhead, Georgia, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Causa de la mort
- severe alcoholism, jaundice and later pulmonary fibrosis
- Llocs de residència
- Buckhead, Georgia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Houston, Texas, USA
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Pawleys Island, South Carolina, USA - Educació
- Clemson College (now University ∙ 1942)
Vanderbilt University (BA|English|1949)
Vanderbilt University (MA|English|1950) - Professions
- poet
novelist
literary critic
essayist
professor
fighter pilot (mostra-les totes 9)
advertising copywriter
children's book author
night-fighter radar observer - Relacions
- Dickey, Christopher (son)
Dickey, Bronwen (daughter)
Price, Reynolds (friend)
Davidson, Donald (teacher)
Lytle, Andrew (teacher) - Organitzacions
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Letters
National Advisory Council on the Arts
National Institute of Arts and Letters
South Carolina Academy of Authors (mostra-les totes 11)
Writer's Guild of America
Phi Beta Kappa
University of South Carolina (professor ∙ poet-in-residence)
United States Army Air Forces (fighter pilot ∙ WWII)
United States Air Force (Korean War) - Premis i honors
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1966-1968)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1966])
Air Medal
Five Bronze Stars
Sewanee Review poetry fellowship (1954-55)
Vachel Lindsay Prize (1959) (mostra-les totes 14)
Levinson Prize (1982)
Guggenheim fellowship (1961-62)
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant (1966)
New York Quarterly Poetry Day Award (1977)
Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina (1983)
Order of the South
Harriet Monroe Prize (1996)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Favourite Books (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
Five star books (1)
Southern Fiction (1)
Page Turners (1)
1970s Thrillers (1)
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 71
- També de
- 36
- Membres
- 4,327
- Popularitat
- #5,792
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 79
- ISBN
- 168
- Llengües
- 11
- Preferit
- 12