James Dickey
(1923–1997)

James Lafayette Dickey was born in Buckhead, Georgia. He attended Vanderbilt University and graduated magna cum laude. As a young man, he was a football player and a motorcycle enthusiast. Although these interests are not usually associated with poetry, Dickey is one of America's best-known poets. Dickey had quite a lucrative career in advertising, but he abandoned it to pursue his love of writing. He is perhaps most famous for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was an international bestseller and was later made into a film. He also read his poem "The Strength of Fields"at the Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in 1977.

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