WRITER

James Dickey

1923 - 1997

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James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Dickey has received more than 717,634 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). James Dickey is the 5,960th most popular writer (down from 5,552nd in 2019), the 9,593rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,484th in 2019) and the 723rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Flight or Fright
Flight Fiction, Horror fiction, Horror stories
Cargo / E. Michael Lewis -- Horror of the heights / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Nightmare at 20,000 feet / Richard Matheson -- Flying machine / Ambrose Bierce -- Lucifer! / E.C. Tubb -- Fifth category / Tom Bissell -- Two minutes forty-five seconds / Dan Simmons -- Diablitos / Cody Goodfellow, Cody -- Air raid / John Varley -- You are released / Joe Hill -- Warbirds / David J. Schow -- The flying machine / Ray Bradbury -- Zombies on a plane / Bev Vincent -- [They shall not grow old](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504289W) / Roald Dahl -- Murder in the air / Peter Tremayne -- The turbulance expert / Stephen King -- Falling / James Dickey -- Afterword: an important message from the flight deck / Bev Vincent.
2018
Poems, 1957-1967
1967
Poems, 1957-1967
Modern Poetry, Poetry, American poetry
1967
Deliverance
Appalachians (People), Canoes and canoeing, Drama
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
1970
Self-interviews
Interviews, Authors, American, American Authors
1970
Principles and procedures of statistics
Mathematical statistics, Biomathematics, Mathematics
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Dickey ranks 5,960 out of 7,302. Before him are Árpád Tóth, Giannina Braschi, Josipina Turnograjska, Jeroen Brouwers, José Jiménez Lozano, and François Nourissier. After him are Robert J. Sawyer, Hugh Blair, Damon Lindelof, Daniel Quinn, Lucía Etxebarría, and Monika Fagerholm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, James Dickey ranks 424. Before him are Óscar González, Ram Jethmalani, Mae Young, Albert Decourtray, Ivano Blason, and George Russell. After him are Kenneth Lane, Vladimir Tendryakov, Mort Walker, Leonid Shamkovich, Percy Heath, and Sumner Redstone. Among people deceased in 1997, James Dickey ranks 277. Before him are Shuhei Nishida, Aleksandr Ivanov, Albert Heremans, James Goldsmith, Wilbert Awdry, and Kåre Holt. After him are Jacques Pollet, Ödön Gróf, LaVern Baker, Spartaco Bandinelli, Basri Dirimlili, and Jean Louis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Dickey ranks 9,593 out of 20,380. Before him are Gloria Talbott (1931), Rocky Carroll (1963), James Deen (1986), Eric Rudolph (1966), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), and Paul Bartel (1938). After him are Curtis Stevens (1898), Chris Connor (1927), Austin Pendleton (1940), Ann Doran (1911), Patricia Richardson (1951), and George Fisher (1970).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, James Dickey ranks 723. Before him are Hanya Yanagihara (1974), Meg Cabot (1967), Alvah Bessie (1904), William Inge (1913), Wilma Mankiller (1945), and J. Michael Straczynski (1954). After him are Damon Lindelof (1973), Daniel Quinn (1935), Winston Churchill (1871), Walter Lord (1917), Michael Parenti (1933), and Tom Brokaw (1940).

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