This Day in Georgia History
February 02, 1923
James Dickey Born
Poet and novelist James Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. While Dickey’s most famous work was his novel Deliverance, he was primarily a poet. His poetry was published in several volumes: Buckdancer’s Choice (which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1966), Into the Stone, Drowning with Others, The Eagle’s Mile, and The Whole Motion: Collected Poems (published in 1994). Dickey died January 19, 1997 in Columbia, S.C.
