He became the University of South Carolina's poet-in-residence in 1968. He studied in Europe under Sewanee Review and Guggenheim fellowships. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University and taught English at Rice University from 1952-54. Dickey was inspired to write verse when he received an anthology of poetry during a stint in Okinawa, a place he later described as a "bloody and terrible stone." "I'm essentially a creature of the military, not that I was all that great a success at it," he said. He served in the Army Air Corps in the early 1940s, then rejoined what had become the Air Force in the 1950s, becoming a first lieutenant. After her death in 1976, he married Deborah Dodson and had a daughter. He had two sons with his first wife of 30 years, the former Maxine Syerson. Dickey was raised primarily by his grandmother but spent a lot of time with his father, whose family was from the Appalachian Mountains. To the White Sea, about a tail gunner shot down over Japan in the final days of World War II, was published in 1993.īorn in Atlanta, Mr. The book, which was later made into a major motion picture, exposed readers to scenes of violence and. His next novel, the little-noticed Alnilam, was published in 1987. In 1970, he penned his best-selling novel, Deliverance. The film, starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, was nominated for an Academy Award as best picture. Deliverance received the French Prix Medicis in 1971 and in 1972 was made into a movie, based on a screenplay by Mr.
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