Eric Jerome Dickey is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 7, 1961 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 7th in 1961. He was raised in the south of Memphis living along Kansas Street. He was a student at Riverview Elementary, Riverview Junior High as well as Carver High. After completing high school, he attended the college of Memphis State University, where the degree was from Computer System Technology. He graduated in 1983 and relocated from Memphis to Los Angeles to pursue a career in engineering.
Sister, Sister, Friends and Lovers; Milk in My Coffee Cheaters, Sister, Sister; Friends and Lovers along with Liar’s Game each reached #1 on the “Blackboard Bestsellers List.” Cheaters was awarded the title “Blackboard Book of the Year” in 2000. Liar’s Game, Thieves’ Paradise The Other Woman, and Genevieve have also brought Dickey the distinction that he was nominated to receive an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005. He received with award to Best Contemporary Fiction and Author of the Year (Male) at the 2005 African American Literary Award Show This honor has been repeated for 2007. In 2009 at the African American Literary Award Show, Dying for Revenge received the prize for the best novel. The year 2008 was the time that Eric received a nomination for the title of Storyteller of the Year at the 1st annual ESSENCE Literary Awards. Numerous awards were presented at the African American Literary Awards Show over the years, including particularly the Male Author of the Year in 2012. 2013he was awarded the R.E.A.D. Award in the name from the National Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Eric Jerome Dickey won 2007 Fiction and Author of the Year (Sleeping with Strangers), 2009 Fiction (Dying for Revenge), 2013 Author of the Year (Blackbirds), and 2017 Author of the Year (Finding Gideon) as part of Yvette Hayward’s African American Literary Awards Show held in the mecca of publishing, New York City. It is the only ongoing literary awards show that recognizes griots from the diaspora.
His books Sleeping with Strangers and Waking with Enemies were released on April 10, 2007 and August 7, 2007, respectively. His 14th novel, Pleasure, was released in April 2008. On November 1, 2008 Dickey released his 15th solo work entitled Dying for Revenge.
The screenplay was then written by him named “Cappuccino”. Produced and directed by Craig Ross Jr., it was screened in coffeehouses throughout and in the Los Angeles area. It was released in the month of February, 1998 “Cappuccino” made its local debut at the Pan-African Film Festival at the Magic Johnson Theater in Los Angeles.
