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Christopher Dickey
Born(1951-08-31)31 August 1951
Died16 July 2020(2020-07-16) (aged 68)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Journalist, author, and news editor
Parent(s)Maxine Syerson and James Dickey[1][2]
FamilyBronwen Dickey (sister)
Kevin Dickey (brother)
Websitechristopherdickey.com

Christopher Dickey (August 31, 1951 – July 16, 2020)[3] was an American journalist, author, and news editor. He was the Paris-based world news editor for The Daily Beast.[4] He authored seven books, including Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South (2015); Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD (2009), and a memoir, Summer of Deliverance (1998), about his father, the poet/novelist James Dickey.

Career

Dickey's career as a foreign correspondent began as Mexico and Central America Bureau Chief for The Washington Post in 1980 after he had spent six years in various editing and writing positions at the paper. Over the following three decades for The Washington Post and then for Newsweek magazine he covered wars in Central America and the Middle East, with occasional forays into Africa and the Balkans. From his experiences in the field he produced the non-fiction books of reportage, With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (1986) and Expats: Travels in Arabia from Tripoli to Tehran (1990); and two novels: Innocent Blood (1997), and its sequel, The Sleeper (2004). New York Times Book Review selected With the Contras, Summer of Deliverance, and Securing the City as notable books of the year in 1986, 1998, and 2009, respectively.[citation needed]

From 2010-13, after Newsweek was acquired by IAC, Dickey worked for both Newsweek and The Daily Beast as Paris bureau chief and Middle East editor, but stayed with The Daily Beast when Newsweek was sold a third time. In March 2014, he was named world news editor for The Daily Beast.[citation needed]

In 1983–84, Dickey was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Original articles and essays by Dickey have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Departures, and many other publications.[citation needed]

Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions optioned Securing the City in the fall of 2009, to develop into a television series.[5]

Christopher Dickey died of heart failure in Paris on July 16, 2020, aged 68.[3]

References

  1. ^ Booknotes interview with Dickey on Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son Archived 2011-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, October 18, 1998
  2. ^ Christopher Dickey on Terrorism, and Moving Beyond a Famous Father Interview with BU Today, Sept 30 2009
  3. ^ a b Latza Nadeau, Barbie (16 July 2020). "Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Christopher Dickey - Biography". christopherdickey.com.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-16. Retrieved 2009-11-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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