James Dickey
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James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist.
Dickey was best known for his novel Deliverance (1970) which was adapted into an acclaimed film of the same name.
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Works
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Novels
- Deliverance (1970)
- Alnilam (1987)
- To the White Sea (1993)
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Poetry
- Into the Stone and Other Poems (in Poets of Today VII) (1960)
- Drowning with Others (1962)
- Two Poems of the Air (1964)
- Helmets (1964)
- Buckdancer's Choice: Poems (1965) —winner of the National Book Award<ref name=nba1966/>
- Poems 1957-67 (1967)
- The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems (1968)
- The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970)
- Exchanges (1971)
- The Zodiac (1976)
- The Owl King (1977)
- Veteran Birth: The Gadfly Poems 1947-49 (1978)
- Tucky the Hunter (1978)
- Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations from the unEnglish (1979)
- The Strength of Fields (1979)
- Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems (1981)
- The Early Motion (1981)
- Puella (1982)
- Värmland (1982)
- False Youth: Four Seasons (1983)
- For a Time and Place (1983)
- Intervisions (1983)
- The Central Motion: Poems 1968-79 (1983)
- Bronwen, The Traw, and the Shape-Shifter: A Poem in Four Parts (1986)
- Summons (1988)
- The Eagle's Mile (1990)
- The Whole Motion: Collected Poems 1949-92 (1992)
- The Selected Poems (1998)
- The Complete Poems of James Dickey (2013)
- Death, and the Day's Light (2015)
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Illustrated prose
- In Pursuit of the Grey Soul (1978)
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Non-fiction
- Jericho: The South Beheld (1974) (with Hubert Shuptrine)
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Filmography
- Lord, Let Me Die, But Not Die Out (documentary) (1970)
- Deliverance (novel / screenplay) (1972) - Sheriff Bullard (cameo film role)
- The Call of the Wild (screenplay) (1976)
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