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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

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About James Dickey

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. He also received the Order of the South award.
Dickey is best known for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 1972 film of the same name.