James Dickey

Awards

Won 1 Guggenheim Fellowship Award

Guggenheim Fellowship 1 won

• ★ — Guggenheim Fellowship Won

Prix Médicis étranger 1 won

• ★ 1971 Prix Médicis étranger Won

National Book Award 1 won

• ★ 1966 National Book Award Won

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James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. His first book, Into the Stone and Other Poems, was published in 1960. Drowning with Others was published in 1962. Dickey's popularity exploded after the film version of his novel Deliverance (1970) was released in 1972. He had a cameo in the film as a sheriff.