Christopher Dickey

Christopher Swift Dickey (August 31, 1951 – July 16, 2020) He authored seven books, including Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South; 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.

Early years Christopher Dickey was born on August 31, 1951, in Nashville, Tennessee, to Maxine (Syerson) Dickey and American poet/novelist James Dickey. During his early years, his family moved to Atlanta, France, Italy, Oregon, and Virginia. and 2009, respectively.

From 2010 to 2013, 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.

In 1983–84, Dickey was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. 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.

Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions optioned Securing the City in the fall of 2009, to develop into a television series. The Christopher Dickey Award is named after him.

Personal life

Dickey married Susan Tuckerman, daughter of Massachusetts politician and horseman Bayard Tuckerman Jr., in 1969. The couple had one son, James Bayard Tuckerman Dickey. The couple divorced in 1979. In 1980, Dickey married his second wife, Carol Salvatore.

Death

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

Works

Nonfiction With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (1986) Expats: Travels in Arabia, from Tripoli to Teheran (1990) Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counter-Terror Force - the NYPD (2009) Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South (2015)

Fiction Innocent Blood (1997) The Sleeper (2004)

Memoir Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (1998)