When visiting this site you'll be able to access a wealth of information about the famous author, from a good biography, to an amazing "Study Topics and Help," where the James Dickey Society answers your e-mailed requests (this help site is designed to "…assist beginning as well as advanced students"). This site also provides a page of links, names of knowledgeable critics with information regarding the author, and dates of recent events that are being held by the Society.

Yahoo Clubs: James Dickey
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/jamesdickey

Click here to be a guest in a James Dickey chat room, and discuss the poet's life and works. This site will give you information regarding when the chats will take place, and what institutions are looking for paper submissions. This club is a good place to visit if you are an advanced "appreciator" or scholar of the author.

New York Times on the Web: James Dickey
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/30/specials/dickey.html

In this page maintained by the online version of the New York Times,, you'll find a good deal of information about the writer. From four audio special downloads, to articles about and by James Dickey, this site has it all. You can also access reviews of 15 of Dickey's books, and get a good feel for the author's style. An excellent place to begin your appreciation of the famous author.

BIOGRAPHY
James Dickey (b. 1923) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. A star player in high school, Dickey enrolled at the University of Clemson with plans for a successful career in college football. These plans were cut short in the second semester of his freshman year when Dickey dropped out of college to enlist in the Army Air Corps. After returning from the war Dickey earned his B.A. and M.A. from Vanderbuilt University. He began teaching at the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas, but was called back to military duty during the Korean war, serving with the US Air Force. Dickey returned to Rice once again and began to concentrate on his writing. Following an attempt to censor Dickey because of a controversial poem believed to be obscene, he left the world of academia and moved to New York to work in advertising. After Dickey published his first poetry collection Into the Stone and Other Poems in 1960, he quit the advertising business to devote all of his time to writing. He began teaching again and in 1965 published his fifth book, Buccaneer's Choice, winner of the National Book Award. From 1966 to 1968 he served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and in 1970 he published his first novel, Deliverance, which was later adapted for the screen. In 1977 Dickey was asked to read his poem 'The Strength of Fields' at President Carter's inauguration. Dickey has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and criticism during his distinguished career. James Dickey died in 1997.